People v. Syde’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 811 - Silver Hills Country Club v. Sobieski (1961), 41 Cal. 3d 714 - People v. Figueroa (1986)
62 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 Austin v. Hallmark Oil Co. · 4 Cal. 2d 547 - Domestic & Foreign Petroleum Co. v. Long · 10 Cal. 2d 147 - In Re Hatch · 13 Cal. 2d 681 - People v. Davenport · 92 Cal. App. 2d 250 - People v. Hoshor
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" ‘Security’ includes all of the following: "(a) Any stock, including treasury stock; any certificate of interest or participation; any certificate of interest in a profit-sharing agreement; any certificate of interest in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease; any transferable share, investment contract, or beneficial interest in title to property, profits, or earnings. "(b) Any bond; any debenture; any collateral trust certificate ; any note; any evidence of indebtedness, whether interest-bearing or not. “(e) Any guarantee of a security. “ (d) Any certificate of deposit for a security.” The commissioner contends not only that a membership in the club is a beneficial interest in the title to property and therefore a security within the literal language of subdivision (a) of section 25008 but also that the purchase of such an interest is attended by the very risks the corporate securities act was designed to minimize. Petitioners contend that a membership is not a beneficial interest in property, on the ground that a member of the club has no rights in either the assets or the income of the club, and that in any event a membership is not within the scope of the act on the ground that it is purchased, not for investment, but for the use and enjoyment of the purchaser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Corporate Securities Law does not contain an all-inclusive formula by which to test the facts in every case. And the courts have refrained from attempting to formulate such a test. Whether a particular instrument is to be considered a security within the meaning of the statute is a question to be determined in each case.” The courts have held that not all deeds to proven or prospective oil land are securities and that, looking through form to substance, the test is whether the buyer receives”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The artist invested in returns from his ... actual participation in the production of a film if profits were realized from the sale thereof. It was not contemplated that he was to play the passive role of an investor only. True the direction in the production and the marketing of the film lay exclusively in the management of the defendants. But the film from which the artist was to profit could not be produced without his actual participation as a member of the case.”
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.