Shine v. Dodge’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Schott Motorcycle Supply, Inc. v. American Honda Motor Co. (1992), Raymond Veilleux Kelly Veilleux Peter Kennedy v. National Broadcasting Company Alan Handel Fred Francis Raymond Veilleux Kelly Veilleux Peter Kennedy (2000)
5 federal appellate · 12 district · 19 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the breach of a promise to do something in the future will not support an action of deceit, even though there may have been a preconceived intention not to perform.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he relationship of the parties or the opportunity afforded for investigation and the reliance, which one is thereby justified in placing on the statement of the other, may transform into an averment of fact that which under ordinary circumstances would be merely an expression of opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.