Clark v. Reeder’s Empirical Analysis
158 U.S. 505 · 1895
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1991 · most notably Williams, Et Ux. v. Robineau (1936), 54 Cal. App. 571 - Williams v. Southern Pacific Co. (1921)
11 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Farrar v. Churchill · Farnsworth v. Duffner · Ludington v. Renick · Clark v. Reeder
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■ “In respect-, to -shell an action, it lias been laid down by many authorities that, where means of knowledge respecting the matters falsely represented are equally open to purchaser and vendor, the former is charged with knowledge' of- álb that by the usé of such means he could have ascertained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burk v. Johnson
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.