French v. Vining’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1981 · most notably Dushane v. Benedict (1887), Ryan v. Progressive Grocery Stores, Inc. (1931)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Emerson v. Brigham · Van Bracklin v. Fonda
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The buyer, has a right to suppose that the thing which he buys, under such circumstances, is what it appears to he, and such purchases are usually made with a reliance upon the supposed skill or actual knowledge of the vendor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Howe““Deceit may sometimes take a negative form, and there may be circumstances in which silence would have all the legal characteristics of actual misrepresentation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loewer v. Harris
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.