Covert v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2014
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Brown v. Cole · Whittaker v. Wall · 8 Ill. 2d 414 - Hammer v. Sanders · Gales v. Weldon
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We think it is clear that the theory of estoppel sought to be presented by defendants-appellants would tend to nullify and defeat the very purpose of the statute, which is clearly penal in nature. It is immaterial whether or not there was evidence to support the giving of [an instruction on estoppel]. The Act was passed to protect investors against their own weaknesses and to prevent the happening of such losses as are shown by this record. See Gales v. Weldon, supra; Brown v. Cole, 155 Tex. 624 , 291 S.W.2d 704, 711 , 59 A.L.R.2d 1011 . If plaintiffs' evidence brings their case within the provisions of the statute, they are entitled to recover. * * *"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * [Ajppellants * * * contend that ‘The Missouri Securities Law’ is not applicable to the transactions here, because the parties were all ■engaged in a series of joint adventures. However, if the conceded facts * * * ■ clearly bring the mentioned transactions within the provisions of the mentioned Act, it is immaterial whether the parties were engaged in a series of joint adventures or whether joint adventures generally are under the Act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Robertson
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.