Munson v. Fishburn’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 1975 · most notably 172 Cal. App. 2d 756 - Agnew v. Parks (1959), Austin v. Hallmark Oil Co. (1943)
2 federal appellate · 56 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 Spreckels v. Gorrill · Lomita Land and Water Co. v. Robinson · Western States Life Ins. Co. v. Lockwood · Hannah v. Steinman · Pacific Vinegar & Pickle Works v. Smith
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be conceded that it must be shown that the plaintiff, by reason of the fraud, suffered an injury of a pecuniary nature, that is, an injury to his property rights, as distinguished from a mere injury to his feelings, but it will be sufficient if the facts alleged show that material injury will necessarily ensue from the fraud, although the amount of the pecuniary loss is not stated.”
1 later decision 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.