scalping
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 375 U.S. 180 - Securities & Exchange Commission v. Capital Gains Research Bureau, Inc. · 1963Most cited · 1,802 citing opinions
a practice of purchasing shares of a security for his own account shortly before recommending that security for long-term investment and then immediately selling the shares at a profit upon the rise in the market price following the recommendation
How often courts cite the case defining “scalping”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “scalping” — 1,789 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.