Masche v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Worrie v. Christine (1951), Bank of Montreal v. Signet Bank (1999)
6 federal appellate · 19 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 Wilson v. Carpenter's Adm'r · West End Real Estate Co. v. Claiborne · McDaniel v. Hodges · Town of Purcellville v. Potts · Lowdon v. Lowdon
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In either of the latter instances, if he in fact acts upon the information so secured by himself, he will not be heard to say that he relied upon the previous misrepresentation of fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fraud cannot be presumed but must be clearly established by either direct or circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gelber v. Glock
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.