State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Big Head (1985), State v. Swallow (1984)
3 district · 23 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. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933)
Relies on Charles Hughes & Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Universal Service Ass'n · Coplin v. United States · Western Cartridge Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Plank v. Heirigs
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any individual is engaged in the sale of securities, it is incumbent upon him if he does not understand the law to first ascertain both its content and its meaning. There is no reason to believe that the defendant did not know and fully understand what he was doing. The purpose of the Blue Sky laws is for the protection of the public. It is a public welfare statute. “The statute is remedial in its nature, and was passed to protect the inexperienced, confiding, and credulous investor, and save him from his own foolish cupidity. It should therefore be liberally and sympathetically construed in order that its beneficent purpose may, so far as possible, be attained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Nagel“A crime must be statutorily defined with definiteness and certainty. A statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process. A criminal statute must give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Primeaux“It shall be a violation of the provisions of this chapter for any person to engage in any transaction, practice or course of business in the sale or purchase of securities which works or tends to work a fraud or deceit upon the purchaser or seller thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.