Denny v. Brissonneaud’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2018
8 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 Lee v. Stockmen's National Bank · Reilly v. Maw · Benjamin Kaufman, Nathan P. Jacobs, Philip Kessler, Morris Rapoport and Martin Bruce v. Mellon National Bank and Trust Company · Healy v. Ginoff · Holland Furnace Co. v. Rounds
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]laintiff may recover when he shows that he has sustained some pecuniary damage or injury by reason of having been put in a position worse than he could have occupied if there had been no fraud, but he cannot recover where he does not show that he has sustained such damage or injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bertram v. McCrea““Generally speaking, the injury or damage which the plaintiff must prove must be something more than contingent damage which may or may not occur. 37 C.J.S. Fraud § 41f, p. 294.””
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.