Pollak v. Staunton’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably Lewis & Queen v. N. M. Ball Sons (1957), 12 Cal. 2d 501 - Mary Pickford Co. v. Bayly Bros., Inc. (1939)
12 federal appellate · 72 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 Smith v. Bach · 73 Cal. App. 548 - People v. Pace · 88 Cal. App. 34 - Tatterson v. Kehrlein · Reilly v. Clyne · 100 Cal. App. 736 - MacDonald v. Reich & Lievre, Inc.
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No company shall sell * * * or offer for sale, negotiate for sale of, or take subscriptions for any security of its own issue until it shall have first applied for and secured from the commissioner a permit authorizing it so to do.” Cal.Stats.1917, c. 532, § 3, p. 675. “Every security issued by any company, without a permit of the commissioner authorizing the same then in effect, shall be void.” Cal.Stats.1917, c. 532, § 12, p. 679.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a natural person owning securities of which he is not the issuer or underwriter may sell such securities for his own account without procuring a permit from the Commissioner of Corporations”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Sidebotham
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.