Epperson v. Roloff’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
14 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Ernst & Young, L.L.P. v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. (2001), 351 Ill. App. 3d 752 - W.W. Vincent & Co. v. First Colony Life Insurance (2004)
14 district · 16 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 Bagdasarian v. Gragnon · 45 Cal. App. 2d 64 - Rothstein v. Janss Investment Corp. · 27 Cal. 2d 349 - Herzog v. Capital Co. · Lubbe v. Barba · American Trust Co. v. California Western States Life Insurance
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the defendant made a. false representation to him, with knowledge or belief that the representation was false or without a sufficient basis for making the representation. Further, the plaintiff must establish that the defendant intended to induce the plaintiff to act or refrain from acting on the representation, and that the plaintiff justifiably relied on the representation. Finally, the plaintiff must establish that he was damaged as a result of his reliance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, a plaintiff making 'an independent investigation will be charged with knowledge of facts which reasonable diligence would have disclosed. Such a plaintiff is deemed to have relied on his own judgment and not on the defendant's representations.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'where the falsity of the defendant's statements i.s not apparent frorn the inspection, where the plaintiff is not competent to judge the facts without expert assistance, or where the defendant has superior knowledge about the matter in issue.”
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.