Pratt v. Kross’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2001
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 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 Securities & Exchange Commission v. W. J. Howey Co. · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · United Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Forman · Barrett v. United States · Securities & Exchange Commission v. C. M. Joiner Leasing Corp.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In commencing a discussion whether the transaction involved a security within the meaning of the fraud provision, it must be kept in mind that this problem is not related to a determination whether a security is required to be registered....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The touchstone [of an investment contract under Howey] is the presence of an investment in a common venture premised on a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the entrepreneurial or managerial efforts of others.”
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.