Fisher v. Kahler’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Bordeaux v. Shannon County Schools (2005), Nygaard v. Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health System (2007)
1 district · 23 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Cechovic v. Hardin & Associates, Inc. · Boos v. Claude · Stevens v. Wood Sawmill, Inc. · Hagans v. Woodruff
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a misrepresentation, (2) without reasonable grounds for believing the statement to be true, (3) with the intent to induce a particular action by another party, and the other party (4) changes position with actual and justifiable reliance on the statement, and (5) suffers damage as a result.”
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.