O'Connor v. Ludlam’s Empirical Analysis
92 F.2d 50 · 1937
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Haddon View Investment Co. v. Coopers (1982), McLean v. Alexander (1979)
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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
Relies on Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · People v. . Katz · Knickerbocker Merchandising Co. v. United States · American Sugar Refining Co. v. Nassif · Panther Rubber Mfg. Co. v. Commissioner
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If they did have that honest belief, whether reasonably or unreasonably, they are not liable. If they did not have an honest belief in the truth of their statements, then they are liable, so far as (scienter) is concerned.”
2 later decisions 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.