98 N.C. App. 274 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Teague, Teague v. Bakker (1994)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. · Pinter v. Dahl · Skinner v. EF Hutton & Co., Inc. · State v. Franks · 70 N.C. App. 517 - Skinner v. EF Hutton & Co., Inc.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is unlawful for any person, in connection with the offer, sale or purchase of any security, directly or indirectly: (1) To employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud, (2) To make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading or, (3) To engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the jury should have been required to find that Dr. Brannon was either a securities owner or 'motivated at least in part by a desire to serve his own financial interests or those of the securities owner,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Piazza v. Kirkbride“every attempt or offer to dispose of, or solicitation of an offer to buy, a security or interest in a security for value.”
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.