Belanger v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1951
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Scott v. Walton · Cooper v. Hillsboro Garden Tracts · Crouch v. Butler · Hornbeck v. Smith · Ford v. Bates
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.
““* * * He [Belanger, the purchaser] came to a court of equity claiming that he had been victimized. Nothing less than frankness should have been manifested by him. In his efforts to prove that he had been defrauded, he should not have come forth as a willing perpetrator of fraud upon others.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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