123 Cal. App. 489 - People v. Lesser’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1981
14 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 Pollak v. Staunton · 73 Cal. App. 548 - People v. Pace · Ex Parte Quarg · People v. Jordan
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in so far as the regulation [provided by it] takes away the right of the owner to sell his own property, it is void. ... Under the guise of 'regulation' a long-established constitutional right, such as is here involved, may not be abridged”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Sidebotham“the sale in a bona fide way of any security by an owner who is not the issuer or an underwriter thereof, who sells the same for his own account; and not for the purpose of evading the provisions of this act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goetz“the Act under which defendant is charged is one avowedly seeking to regulate the sale of property, and, in so far as the regulation takes away the right of the owner to sell his own property, it is void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goetz
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.