Hirsch v. Arthur Andersen & Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a trustee had no standing to pursue claims of fraud against the debtor's accountant because under Connecticut law those claims belonged to investors
• holding that the claims “are the property of those investors, and may be asserted only by them and to the exclusion of [the Trustee]”
• holding that a bankruptcy trustee is barred from pursuing claims for injuries particularized to certain creditors
• holding that, under Connecticut law, bankruptcy trustee lacks standing to sue accounting firm hired by debtor for malpractice in connection with debtor’s Ponzi-scheme real-estate-investment operation
• holding that claims of fraud, negligence, professional malpractice, breach of '• contract, breach of fiduciary duties were “traceable to one of two events alleged in the complaint”
• holding that “claims predicated upon the distribution of misleading [private placement memoran-da]” belong to the investors, “and may be asserted only by them and to the exclusion of [the trustee]”

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Cited by

287 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Goldstein v. Pataki
  Second Circuit· 2008-04-07· cited 309×
• Janvey v. Alguire
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-07-22· cited 281×
• Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors v. R.F. Lafferty & Co., Inc. Cogen Sklar, L.L.P
  Third Circuit· 2001-10-09· cited 275×
• Wight v. BankAmerica Corp.
  Second Circuit· 2000-05-25· cited 274×
• Official Committee Of The Unsecured Creditors Of Color Tile, Inc. v. Coopers & Lybrand, Llp
  Second Circuit· 2003-02-20· cited 243×
• Peregrine Funding, Inc. v. Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-10-19· cited 232×
• Kirschner v. KPMG LLP
  New York Court of Appeals· 2010-10-21· cited 216×
• St. Pierre v. Dyer
  Second Circuit· 2000-03-24· cited 207×
• American International Group, Inc. v. Greenberg
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2009-02-10· cited 175×
• In Re Livent, Inc. Noteholders Securities Litig.
  S.D. New York· 2001-06-29· cited 173×
• In Re Merrill Lynch & Co., Research Reports Securities Litigation
  S.D. New York· 2003-08-12· cited 171×
• Mediators, Inc. v. Manney (In re Mediators, Inc.)
  Second Circuit· 1997-01-30· cited 160×
• Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Color Tile, Inc. v. Coopers & Lybrand, LLP
  Second Circuit· 2003-02-20· cited 154×
• Bankruptcy Services, Inc. v. Ernst & Young (In Re CBI Holding Co.)
  Second Circuit· 2008-06-16· cited 149×
• Jaghory v. New York State Department Of Education
  Second Circuit· 1997-12-15· cited 142×
• Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. v. Gredd (In Re Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd.)
  S.D. New York· 2007-12-17· cited 132×
• In Re DoubleClick Inc. Privacy Litigation
  S.D. New York· 2001-03-28· cited 120×
• In Re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation
  S.D. New York· 2003-05-19· cited 111×
• Goldin v. Primavera Familienstiftung, Tag Associates, Ltd. (In Re Granite Partners, L.P.)
  S.D. New York· 1996-04-16· cited 102×
• Tronox Inc. v. Kerr-McGee Corp.
  Second Circuit· 2017-04-20· cited 101×

Cites

35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Warth v. Seldin
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-25· cited 10,875×
• City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 5,797×
• Allen v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1984-09-18· cited 4,763×
• Flast v. Cohen
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 3,484×
• Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood
  Supreme Court· 1979-04-17· cited 1,761×
• Pennell v. City of San Jose
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 609×
• Kramer v. Time Warner Inc
  Second Circuit· 1991-06-27· cited 603×
• Bankers Trust Company v. Daniel Rhoades, Herman Soifer and Milton Braten
  Second Circuit· 1988-10-03· cited 425×
• Caplin v. Marine Midland Grace Trust Co. of New York
  Supreme Court· 1972-05-22· cited 389×
• Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. v. Walter Wagoner, Jr., Trustee
  Second Circuit· 1991-09-18· cited 371×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 91,922 James Bloor v. Carro, Spanbock, Londin, Rodman & Fass
  Second Circuit· 1985-01-21· cited 289×
• Unnamed case
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-07-06· cited 271×
• Dana Leigh Thompson v. County of Franklin, William A. Hughes, Treasurer of Franklin County
  Second Circuit· 1994-01-20· cited 269×
• Brass v. American Film Technologies, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1993-03-08· cited 265×
• St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company v. Pepsico, Inc., Pepsico, Inc., Third-Party v. Banner Industries, Inc., Third-Party
  Second Circuit· 1989-09-08· cited 260×
• Turoso v. Cleveland Municipal Court
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 260×
• Cenco Inc. v. Seidman & Seidman
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-03-26· cited 246×
• Bankr. L. Rep. P 75,517 Kalb, Voorhis & Co. v. American Financial Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1993-10-26· cited 161×
• In Re American Express Company Shareholder Litigation
  Second Circuit· 1994-11-01· cited 138×
• E.F. Hutton & Co., Inc. v. George Hadley, Bankruptcy Trustee, Inc., Trustee for the Liquidation of Gic Government Securities, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-05-24· cited 137×

Other cases named Hirsch v. Arthur Andersen & Co.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Hirsch v. Arthur Andersen & Co.
  D. Connecticut· 1994-06-10· cited 15×