Ming v. Woolfolk’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 599 · 1886
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2000 · most notably United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. (1888), Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. v. United States (1927)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Considered, therefore, as an action for a deceit, it is plain that the case must fail, for, conceding the alleged representations to have been made by the defendant, and to have been false, the plaintiffs were not induced thereby to change their condition, and, moreover, have suffered no damage."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The requisites to sustain an action for deceit are the telling of an untruth knowing it to be an untruth, with intent to induce a man to alter his condition, and his altering his condition in consequence, whereby he sustains damage.””
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.