166 Pa. Super. 275 - Commonwealth v. Yaste’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. Monumental Properties, Inc. (1974), Masland v. Bachman (1977)
22 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77B (§ 2 of the Securities Act of 1933)
Relies on Securities & Exchange Commission v. C. M. Joiner Leasing Corp. · United States v. Brown · 163 Pa. Super. 635 - Alford v. Raschiatore · United States v. Gaskin · Commonwealth v. Shaleen
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And the clear intent of the Act is not to be defeated by a too literal reading of words without regard to their context and the evils which the .Act clearly was designed to correct. Even the canon of strict construction of a penal statute is not an inexorable command to override common sense and evident statutory purpose. As was said in United States v. Gaskin, 320 U.S. 527, 530 , 64 S. Ct. 318, 319 , 88 L. Ed. 287 : ‘[the canon] does not require distortion of nullification of the evident meaning and purpose of the legislation’. ‘Nor does it demand that a statute be given the “narrowest meaning”; it is satisfied if the words are given their fair meaning in accord with the manifest intent of the lawmakers’: United States v. Brown, 333 U.S. 18 , 68 S. Ct. 376 .”: 166 Pa. Superior Ct. at 278, 70 A. 2d at 687 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(t) “Security” means any note; stock; treasury stock; bond; debenture; evidence of indebtedness; share of beneficial interest in a business trust; certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement; collateral trust certificate; preorganization certificate or subscription; transferable share; investment contract; voting trust certificate; certificate of deposit for a security; limited partnership interest; fractional undivided interest in oil, gas or other mineral rights; put, call, straddle, option or privilege on a security, certificate of deposit of a security or group or index of securities, including any interest in the securities or based upon the value of the securities, or any put, call, straddle, option or privilege entered into on a national securities exchange relating to foreign currency; membership interest in a limited liability company of any class or series, including any fractional or other interest in such interest, unless excluded by clause (v); or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a “security”; or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certifícate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing. All of the foregoing are securities whether or not evidenced by written document.”
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.