Harding v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably 20 Cal. 2d 713 - Wennerholm v. Stanford University School of Medicine (1942), Andrews v. California Trust Co. (1940)
4 federal appellate · 89 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 Feeney v. Howard · Colton v. Stanford · Harrison v. McCormick · Germain Fruit Co. v. J. K. Armsby Co. · Bradbury v. Higginson
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The suggestion, as a fact, of that which is not true, by one who does not believe it to be true; 2. The positive assertion, in a manner not warranted by the information of the person making it, of that which is not true, though he believes it to be true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Podlasky v. Price
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.