Van Ettinger v. Pappin’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably First Bank (N.A.) — Billings v. Clark (1989), Cechovic v. Hardin & Associates, Inc. (1995)
2 district · 38 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 Lee v. Stockmen's National Bank · Brown v. Thornton · Power & Bro., Ltd. v. Turner · Carnell v. Watson · Grindrod v. Anglo-American Bond Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"1. A representation; "2. Falsity of the representation; "3. Materiality of the representation; "4. Speaker's knowledge of the falsity of the representation or ignorance of its truth; "5. Speaker's intent it should be relied upon; "6. The hearer's ignorance of the falsity of the representation; "7. The hearer's reliance on the representation; "8. The hearer's right to rely on the representation; and "9. Consequent and proximate injury caused by the reliance on the representation." Van Ettinger v. Pappin (1978), 180 Mont. 1 , 588 P.2d 988, 994 , 35 St.Rep. 1956 , 1961, and cases cited therein.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krone v. McCann · Lee v. Armstrong“`When it appears that a party, who claims to have been deceived to his prejudice, has investigated for himself or that the means were at hand to ascertain the truth ... of any representations made to him, his reliance upon such representations made to him, however false they may have been, affords no ground of complaint...'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.