Seeger v. Odell’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 223 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 306 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 46 Cal. 3d 1092 - Leal v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for Unification of World Christianity (1988), 10 Cal. 4th 1226 - Alliance Mortgage Co. v. Rothwell (1995)
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 223 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 Crompton v. Beedle · Robins v. Hope · Chamberlin v. Fuller · Wilson v. Nichols · Kansas City, M. & O. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Hitson
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 306 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`misrepresents the facts upon which it is based or implies the existence of facts which are nonexistent, it constitutes an actionable misrepresentation.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the conduct of the plaintiff in the light of his own intelligence and information was manifestly unreasonable,... he will be denied a recovery.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Nor is the plaintiff held to the standard of precaution or of minimum knowledge of a hypothetical reasonable man.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.