9 Cal. 4th 493 - People v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 204 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 28 Cal. 4th 457 - People v. Mower (2002), 47 Cal. 4th 381 - Imperial Merchant Services, Inc. v. Hunt (2009)
4 federal appellate · 204 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. § 77A (§ 1 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77L (§ 12 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Morissette v. United States · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knowledge of the falsity or misleading nature of a statement or of the materiality of an omission, or criminal negligence in failing to investigate and discover them, are elements of the criminal offense described in section 25401.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Because an exemption defense is not collateral to the defendant's guilt of a charge of selling unqualified securities, ... a defendant's burden is only to raise a reasonable doubt that the defendant sold nonexempt securities.”
2 later decisions 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.