Willis v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 450 So. 2d 1114 - Dania Jai-Alai Palace, Inc. v. Sykes (1984), Columbus Hotel Corp. v. Hotel Management Co. (1934)
5 federal appellate · 86 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 Buzard v. Houston · Quinn v. Phipps · Dale v. Jennings · Gentry-Futch Co. v. Gentry · Pryor v. Oak Ridge Development 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not unmindful of the general rule that representations in regard to value are regarded as expressions of opinion on which the purchaser has no right to rely, and which afford no ground for rescission, especially where the parties are dealing at arms length and on equal terms. Glass v. Craig, 83 Fla. 408 , 91 So. 332 . But it has been held that where one of the parties to a contract of sale is in possession of exclusive or greatly superior knowledge of the value of the subject matter, as where an officer of a corporation, with full knowledge, makes a statement to a prospective purchaser of its stock, a mere member of the general public, as to what the stock is worth, his statement will be regarded as the statement of a matter of fact, rather than of opinion, and if false and fraudulent, the sale may be rescinded.” (citing authorities).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may set aside all transactions founded on it, however they may have been effected, and notwithstanding any contrivance by which it may have been attempted to protect them, and may also treat acts as having been done which ought to have been done, and convert the party who has committed a fraud and profited by it into a trustee for the injured party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“showing that the defendant has possession of money of the plaintiff which in equity and good conscience he ought to pay over.”
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.