essential link
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 396 U.S. 375 - Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · 1970Most cited · 3,896 citing opinions
a shareholder has made a sufficient showing of causal relationship between the violation and the injury for which he seeks redress if, as here, he proves that the proxy solicitation itself, rather than the particular defect in the solicitation materials, was an essential link in the accomplishment of the transaction
How often courts cite the case defining “essential link”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “essential link” — 3,880 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.