Mather v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
146 F. 1000 · 1906
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1933
4 federal appellate ·
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 James Sigafus v. Dudley Porter · Slaughter's Administrator v. Gerson · Farnsworth v. Duffner · Sawyer v. Prickett · Kimball v. Bangs
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general principles upon wliicli a suit of this kind proceeds are too well settled to need the citation of authorities. A misrepresentation with regard to material facts by which a purchase of property is intentionally induced amounts to a fraud which vitiates the transaction, and entitles the purchaser to be relieved. * * * Neither does it matter if misrepresentation be proved that the bargain, even so, was a good one, from which the purchaser is likely to sustain no loss. Tn an action of deceit, no doubt, this would be relevant on the question of damages in order to show that there were none; * * * but not so upon a bill to rescind. Hansen v. Allen, 117 Wis. 61 , 93 N. W. 805 : Clapp v. Greenlee, 100 Iowa, 586 , 69 N. W. 1049 . The purchaser is entitled to the bargain which he supposed and was led to believe that he was getting, and is not to be put off with any other, however good. It is of no consequence in the present instance, therefore, that the plaintiffs got coal lands of intrinsic value, which are worth perchance all that was paid for them, if they were fraudulently induced to believe by representations for which the defendants are responsible that the upper Freeport vein, for which they negotiated, underlaid the whole property, whereas, in fact, it extends over but a comparatively limited part.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Lamborn
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.