People v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Por a further and separate cause of action, being a different offense of the same class of crimes and offenses as the charge set forth in Count I hereof, the said A. G. Scott is accused by the District Attorney of and for the County of Los Angeles, State of California, by this information, of the crime of violation op the cobpobate secubities act, a felony, committed as follows: That the said A. G. Scott, on or about the 28th day of June 1944, at and in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously sell and issue and cause to be sold and issued for value to M. S. Silengo, a security, to wit: an investment contract, a certificate of interest and participation, a certificate of interest in title to property, profits and earnings, as follows: Ten percent of the net earnings of the Coachella cut-off project of the All American Canal sub-contract under M. H. Hasler, without having applied for, or obtained from the Corporation Commissioner of the State of California, a permit so to do.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Scott