Kerst v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. C. M. Joiner Leasing Corp. (1943), Los Angeles Trust Deed & Mortgage Exchange v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1960)
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 20 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 Johnson v. Harrison · 73 Cal. App. 548 - People v. Pace · State v. Evans · 20 Ala. App. 204 - State v. Skinner · Berg v. Baldwin
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In view of the ingenuity of those who seek to induce men and women to put their money into far-off speculative enterprises over which the investor has little or no control, and in view of the paternalistic character of blue sky laws, it should be the policy of the courts to refrain from hampering the state officials in the performance of their duties by placing a narrow construction on such laws.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hofacre
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.