Murray v. Tolman’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 1986 · most notably Vaughn v. General Foods Corp. (1986), Stonemets v. Head (1913)
5 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedTolman v. Murray
Relationships
Relies on Kost v. Bender · Picard v. McCormick · Townsend v. Cowles · Allen v. Hart · Moreland v. Atchison
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Where the vendee is wholly ignorant of the value of the property, and the vendor knows this, and also knows that the vendee is relying upon his (the vendor’s) representations as to the value, and such representation is not a mere expression of opinion, but is made as a statement of fact, which statement the vendor knows to be untrue, such a statement is a representation by which the vendor is bound.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacoby v. Hollada
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.