Lloyd v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Fox v. Deese (1987), Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. O'NEAL (1982)
4 federal appellate · 43 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 Russell v. Industrial Transp. Co. · Russell v. Industrial Transportation Co. · Russell v. Industrial Transp. Co. · Wilson v. Hundley · Laing v. McKee
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are, however, some real and apparent exceptions. The courts are not agreed as to all of these exceptions, but there is much authority to the effect that an action in tort for deceit and fraud may sometimes be predicated on promises which are made with a present intention not to perform them .... It has been stated that the gist of fraud in such case is not the breach of the agreement to perform, but the fraudulent intent.”
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.