Anderson v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1981
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 Glocke v. Glocke · White v. Bailey · Bruer v. Bruer · McClelland v. McClelland · Cree v. Sherfy
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Fraud, therefore, is properly made out by marshaling the circumstances surrounding the transaction and deducing therefrom the fraudulent purpose where it manifestly appears, as by presenting the more positive and direct testimony of actual purpose to deceive ; and, indeed, circumstantial proof in most cases can alone bring the fraud to light, for fraud is peculiarly a wrong of secrecy and circumvention, and is to be traced, not in the open proclamation of the wrongdoer’s purpose, but by the indications of covered tracks and studious concealments.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“She says that no such contract was ever made by her, and this being true, we may reasonably assume that she never intended to perform or keep it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Telman v. Galles
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.