157 Pa. Super. 95 - Commonwealth v. Summons’s Empirical Analysis

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21 state decisions

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1. “This [facial constitutional] question (perhaps because it suggests only one answer) has never been raised in an appellate court of this state. We find no merit in it. The word “isolated” is not a word of art or of technical meaning. In common as well as universal usage it means standing alone, detached, separate. It is the opposite or counterterm-the antonym-of “repeated” or “successive.” Whether sales of stock ... are isolated or repeated and successive transactions indicating a course of dealing must depend upon the facts of each case in the light of the purpose of the act.... [Wjhere sales ... recur within such reasonable time as to indicate an association of acts under one general purpose, such sales are not “isolated....””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blinder, Robinson & Co., Inc. v. Goettsch

2. ““The sales charged in the indictment upon which appellant was convicted were the only ones made in Cambria County. But there were many other sales of stock made by him in Clearfield County, and evidence of these was admissible to rebut the inference that the transactions in question were isolated and to establish a course of dealing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Allen