Pergament v. Frazer’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2011
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 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. § 77A (§ 1 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78I (§ 9 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Pepper v. Litton · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not find any collusion, fraud, concealment or unfair dealing in arriving at the compromise and we hold there was ‘arms-length bargaining.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A class action shall not be dismissed or compromised without the approval of the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stella v. Kaiser
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.