Adams v. Schiffer’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1979 · most notably Guthrie & Western Railroad v. Rhodes (1907), Great West Min. Co. v. Woodmas of Alston Min. Co. (1888)
27 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 Harmony v. . Bingham · Hackley v. Headley · Dowd v. Tucker · Spaids v. Barrett · Scholey v. . Mumford
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.
““A misrepresentation goes for nothing unless it is a proximate and immediate cause of the transaction. It is not enough that it may have remotely or indirectly contributed to the transaction, or'may have supplied a motive to the other party to enter into it. The representation must be the very ground on which the transaction has taken place.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A fraud must relate to facts then existing, or which liad previously existed; hence non-performance of a .promise made in the course of negotiations is not of itself either a fraud or the evidence of a fraud.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Orris
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.