Anderson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably 24 Md. App. 128 - Andresen v. State (1975), 91 Md. App. 123 - Travel Committee, Inc. v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1992)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 31 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 Schank v. . Schuchman · Highberger v. Stiffler · Union Passenger Railway Co. v. Mayor of Baltimore · Bosher v. R. & H. Land Co. · Boyd v. Shirk
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.
““We cannot assume, as we are asked to do by the coal company’s demurrer, that for 15 years that company continuously withheld from its employees, without their knowledge or consent, by means of false weights, agencies, and instrumentalities- in its exclusive control, compensation justly due them, to its gain and their loss, without assuming also that it knew and intended to do what it did. On the other hand, in the face of their statements that they knew nothing o£ the short weight, and considering the fact that the conditions resulting in the false weights were so latent as to deceive even the officials charged with the duty of inspecting such scales for the state, we cannot assume that the employees of the coal company were guilty of negligence in failing to discover the false weights. We cannot say under such circumstances that the company had no knowledge of the false weights nor that it had no intention to deceive. Knowledge and intent are mental phenomena which in the ease of a corporation can only he inferred from the acts of its agents. It seldom happens that a person, natural or corporate, overtly admits or declares, either orally or in writing, an intention to perpetrate a fraud, and it follows that the existence of such an intent can, in many eases, only be known from inferences drawn from the conduct of its agents. “It is not necessary, in establishing the knowledge and intent essential to a charge of fraud, to show such knowledge and intent by direct evidence, bu”
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.