People v. Sidwell’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 66 Cal. 2d 881 - In Re Black (1967), 148 Cal. App. 2d 392 - People v. Mills (1957)
93 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 4 Cal. 2d 547 - Domestic & Foreign Petroleum Co. v. Long · 26 Cal. App. 2d 725 - People v. Yant · People v. Lippner · 107 Cal. App. 211 - People v. Robinson · 73 Cal. App. 548 - People v. Pace
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The understanding or misunderstanding of the parties as to the nature of the transaction is not determinative of its legal effect. However innocent in one sense may have been the defendants' intentions, their acts in entering into the contract were deliberate and it is by their acts and the language of the Corporate Securities Act that we must judge the legal consequences of those acts and the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the present case the trial court, upon conflicting but sufficient evidence, impliedly found that the transaction, in substance as well as in form, was within the act. The fact that the evidence amply admits of inferences that in its essential substance such transaction was not within the proscription of the act does not permit us to disturb the trial judge's determination.”
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.