U.S. v. Melvin’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.3d 1296 · 2017
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2023
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78D (§ 4c of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78U (§ 21a of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 18 U.S.C. § 1348 (§ 807 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Relies on Hudson v. United States · United States v. Ward · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Palmisano · Grossfeld v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“none of the penalties 'comes into play only on a finding of scienter' " because "[t]he SEC may impose a monetary penalty against a person whom the SEC determines has merely 'violated' the Exchange Act”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“none of the penalties 'comes into play only on a finding of scienter'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.