Sledge & Norfleet Co. v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The law of the subject is well settled. In First National Bank of Newark v. People’s National Bank of Springfield, 97 Ark. 15 , 132 S.W. 1008, 1009 , the late Chief Justice Hart quoted with approval from Hanger v. Evins, 38 Ark. 334 , the following: ‘A false representation, to be actionable, must not only mislead, but must be made fraudulently, and with that intent. No one can be held liable for a false representation, who honestly believed it when made, however false it may be; but he is liable if he knew it to be false, or, knowing nothing about it, asserted it to be true.’ * * * “In Troyer v. Cameron, 160 Ark. 421 , 254 S.W. 688 ; 690, the court quoted the following as the rule of the court governing actionable misrepresentations : ‘In order that representations may be fraudulent in law, they must be made by one who either knows them to be false, or else, not knowing, asserts them to be true, and made with the intent to have the other party act upon them to his injury, and such must be their effect.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 294 F. Supp. 1178 - Vanderboom v. Sexton