In re Waldstein’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. C. M. Joiner Leasing Corp. (1943), Los Angeles Trust Deed & Mortgage Exchange v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1960)
8 federal appellate · 17 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The New York `Blue Sky Law' uses the term to cover `stocks, bonds, notes, evidences of interest or indebtedness or other securities, including oil and mineral deeds or leases and any interest therein, sold or transferred in whole or in part to the purchaser where the same do not effect a transfer of the title in fee simple to the land, or negotiable documents of title, or foreign currency orders, calls or options therefor . . .' General Business Law, § 352(1).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Those instruments, however, secured or unsecured, which are used for the purpose of financing enterprises and promoting a distribution of rights in or obligations of such enterprises, and which are designed as a means of investment, are termed securities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any form of instrument used for the purpose of financing and promoting enterprises, and which is designed for investment, is a security”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.