Horner v. Ahern’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Field v. Mans (1995), Kilduff v. Adams, Inc. (1991)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 65 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 Poe v. Voss · Costello v. Larsen · Lake v. Tyree · Murphy v. McIntosh · Strickland v. Cantonwine
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“divert[ed them] 'from making the inquiries and examination which a prudent man ought to make.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where ordinary care and prudence are sufficient for full protection, it is the duty of the party to make use of them. Therefore, if false representations are made regarding matters of fact, and the means of knowledge are at hand and equally available to both parties, and the party, instead of resorting to them, sees fit to trust himself in the hands of one whose interest it is to mislead him, the law, in general, will leave him where he has been placed by his own imprudent confidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is a very important exception to the rule that a purchaser is bound to discover the true condition for himself if he has information which would excite the suspicions of a reasonable prudent man. That exception is that the vendor must not say or do anything to throw the purchaser off his guard or to di vert him from making the inquiries and examination which a prudent man ought to make.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grooms v. Capets
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.