Scottish Heritable Trust v. Peat Marwick Main & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that potential investor with “no previous connection to either the corporation or the accountant” was not within such a group
• noting \ actual knowledge of a particular plaintiff ... is not necessary if the defendant [accountant] should have had this knowledge\
• interpreting Texas law and determining that the objective of Section 552 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts is to restrict accountants’ liability to a prescribed group and not permit recovery for all foreseeable users of an accountant’s audit report
• \Technical noncompliance with Rule 50(b) may be excused in situations in which the purposes of the rule are satisfied.\
• “Technical noncom- pliance with Rule 50(b) may be excused in situations in which the purposes of the rule are satisfied.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Collins v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-08-31· cited 1,731×
• Great Plains Trust Co. v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-12-09· cited 1,161×
• Barry C. Cosgrove, Cross-Appellee v. Joseph Bartolotta and Mary-Bart, Llc, Doing Business as Bartolotta's Lake Park Bistro
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-07-22· cited 395×
• Provost v. City of Newburgh
  Second Circuit· 2001-08-17· cited 333×
• Rankin v. Evans
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-01-29· cited 258×
• Grant Thornton LLP v. Prospect High Income Fund
  Texas Supreme Court· 2010-07-02· cited 214×
• Navigant Consulting, Inc. v. Wilkinson
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-11-15· cited 178×
• Pizza Hut, Inc. v. Papa John's International, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-09-19· cited 156×
• Alexandro Puga v. About Tyme Transport, Inc
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-04-17· cited 145×
• Jane McGinnis v. American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-03-22· cited 115×
• In Re Enron Corp. Securities, Derivative & ERISA
  S.D. Texas· 2003-10-16· cited 114×
• Ackerman v. Price Waterhouse
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1998-12-01· cited 113×
• Lawrence J. Mathieu v. Gopher News Company
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-12-11· cited 102×
• Gary Kusens, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Pascal Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellees/cross-Appellants
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-05-09· cited 91×
• Clardy Manufacturing Co. v. Marine Midland Business Loans Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-07-22· cited 87×
• Taylor Publishing Co. v. Jostens, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-07-12· cited 79×
• Walpert, Smullian & Blumenthal, P.A. v. Katz
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-11-21· cited 67×
• C.P. Interests, Inc. v. California Pools, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-01-30· cited 64×
• Ericsson Inc. v. Tcl Communication Technology
  Federal Circuit· 2020-04-14· cited 58×
• Otto Candies, L.L.C. v. Nippon Kaiji Kyokai Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-10-28· cited 51×

Cites

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

• Salve Regina College v. Russell
  Supreme Court· 1991-03-20· cited 2,415×
• Federal Land Bank Ass'n of Tyler v. Sloane
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-04-08· cited 520×
• Bily v. Arthur Young & Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1992-08-27· cited 384×
• Grumman Allied Industries, Inc. And Grumman Corporation v. Rohr Industries, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1984-10-31· cited 174×
• Airborne Freight Corp. v. C.R. Lee Enterprises, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1993-02-03· cited 153×
• Polanco v. City of Austin, Tex.
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-03-28· cited 135×
• Petrillo v. Bachenberg
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1995-03-29· cited 127×
• Cook Consultants, Inc. v. Larson
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1985-08-13· cited 95×
• Paul BOHRER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HANES CORPORATION, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-09-23· cited 90×
• Haralson v. E.F. Hutton Group, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-12-26· cited 80×
• Blue Bell, Inc. v. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1986-07-24· cited 78×
• Ward v. Ernst & Young
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-09-17· cited 77×
• Wellborn v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-08-21· cited 60×
• In Re Sahlen & Associates, Inc. Securities Litigation
  S.D. Florida· 1991-07-10· cited 59×
• Touche Ross & Co. v. Commercial Union Ins. Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-08-26· cited 50×
• In Re ML-Lee Acquisition Fund II, L.P. & ML-Lee Acquisition Fund (Retirement Accounts) II, L.P. Securities Litigation
  D. Delaware· 1994-03-31· cited 42×
• First National Bank of Commerce (Formerly the Bank of New Orleans & Trust Company) v. Monco Agency Incorporated, Arthur Young & Company
  First Circuit· 1990-09-14· cited 40×
• George Jones, Cross-Appellant v. Benefit Trust Life Insurance Company, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-10-01· cited 35×
• Geosearch, Inc. v. Howell Petroleum Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-07-23· cited 35×
• Patricia Below Granberry v. Dennis O'Barr
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-12-29· cited 34×