Dunn v. Dent’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 850 So. 2d 78 - Stephens v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of US (2003), Ross v. Citifinancial, Inc. (2003)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 Dunn v. Stratton · Horton v. State · Lundy v. Hazlett
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the purchaser's right of action for such deceit accrues upon the completion of the sale induced by such false representation, or upon the consummation of the fraud....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did anything that could be construed as a concealment of the falsity of the representation as to the amount of land conveyed or a concealment of the cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reich v. Jesco, Inc.
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.