Stapleton v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably McClellan v. Cantrell (2000), Mellon Bank, N.A. v. Vitanovich (In Re Vitanovich) (2001)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Johnson v. McDonald · Operators Royalty & Producing Co. v. Greene · Bigpond v. Mutaloke · Bloch v. Morgan · Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co. of California v. Tetirick
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Fraud is a generic term, which embraces all the multifarious means which human ingenuity can devise and which are resorted to by one individual to gain an advantage over another by false suggestions or by the suppression of truth. No definite and invariable rule can be laid down as a general proposition defining fraud, and it includes all surprise, trick, cunning, dissembling, and any unfair way by which another is cheated.’”
26 later decisions 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.