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← 1998 MT 46 - Jackson v. State

Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
April 2025
most recently cited

4 district · 20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Henricksen v. State (2004), Prindel v. Ravalli County (2006)

4 district · 20 state decisions

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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 Sisson v. Ruby · Gibbs v. Ernst · Carbon County v. Union Reserve Coal Co., Inc. · Bruner v. Yellowstone County · Motarie v. Northern Montana Joint Refuse Disposal District

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

  1. “a. the defendant made a representation as to a past or existing material fact; b. the representation must have been untrue; c. regardless of its actual belief, the defendant must have made the representation without any reasonable ground for believing it to be true; d. the representation must have been made with the intent to induce the plaintiff to rely on it; e. the plaintiff must háve been unaware of the falsity of the representation; it must have acted in reliance upon the truth of the representation and it must have been justified in relying upon the representation; f. the plaintiff, as a result of its reliance, must sustain damage.”
    1 later decision 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.