Pollok v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2008
3 federal appellate · 6 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. § 77A (§ 1 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77D (§ 4 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Tcherepnin v. Knight · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Ralston Purina Co. · 362 F. Supp. 226 - Securities & Exchange Commission v. M. A. Lundy Associates
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“achieve their ends in similar ways: the disclosure of material information concerning issuers of stock and the regulation of sellers of securities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrews v. Browne“is intended to protect investors from fraudulent sales of securities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunn v. Borta
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.