Steinberg v. Sharpe’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1986
13 federal appellate · 2 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. § 78P (§ 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Smolowe v. Delendo Corp. · Truncale v. Blumberg · Ball v. Cities Service Defense Corp.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) To the extent specified in paragraph (b) of this section the Commission hereby exempts as not comprehended within the purposes of section 16(b) of the Act any transaction or transactions involving the purchase and sale or sale and purchase of any equity security where such purchase is pursuant to the exercise of an option or similar right either (1) acquired more than six months before its exercise, or (2) acquired pursuant to the terms of an employment contract entered into more than 6 months before its exercise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kornfeld v. Eaton“so much of the value of the option as represented long-term increment, to which the defendant was entitled pursuant to the option agreements by virtue of his continued services to the corporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely by deferring the exercise of options because he anticipated an increase in the value of the stock on the basis of some inside information.”
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.