Weiss v. Wittcoff’s Empirical Analysis
966 F.2d 109 · 1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably ATSI Communications, Inc. v. Shaar Fund, Ltd. (2007), Mills v. Polar Molecular Corp. (1993)
6 federal appellate · 6 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. § 783
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Kahn v. Grant · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · United States v. Bornstein · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,853 John Schlick v. Penn-Dixie Cement Corporation
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must show that the defendant's misrepresentations not only caused the plaintiff to engage in the transaction in question, but also that they caused the harm suffered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it was quite foreseeable that the consummation of defendants' secret intention not to perform their promises would cause Weiss to suffer a loss.”
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.