Nance v. McClellan’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably Templeton v. Dreiss (1998), Texas Industrial Trust, Inc. v. Lusk (1958)
40 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The opinion in Russell v. Industrial Transportation Company, supra, recognizes that the general rule which it announces is not without qualification when it states that the word `damage' should not be restricted to monetary loss, and that it is sufficient if the defrauded party has been induced to incur a legal liability or obligation different from that represented or contracted for.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that proof of pecuniary damage must be made in a suit to rescind for fraud, as well as in an action for damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“pecuniary damage is not essential to fraud available as the basis for rescission of a contract,”
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.