945 F. Supp. 416 - Simon v. American Power Conversion Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2014
5 federal appellate · 11 district ·
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. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78T (§ 20 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Basic Inc. v. Levinson · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Chiarella v. United States · Kuntz v. City of Dayton
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who, directly or indirectly, controls any person liable under any provision of this chapter or of any rule or regulation ... shall also be liable jointly and severally with and to the same extent as such controlled person unless the controlling person acted in good faith and did not directly or indi rectly induce the act or acts constituting the violation or cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we are gaining market share, we are gaining momentum, and our revenues are strong”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.