Erftmier v. Eickhoff’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Spittler v. Nicola (1992), Interholzinger v. Estate of Dent (1983)
2 district · 40 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 Page v. Andreasen · Grady v. Denbeck · Growney v. CMH Real Estate Co. · Edquist v. Commercial Savings & Loan Ass'n · Edquist v. COMMERCIAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essential elements required to sustain an action for fraud are, generally speaking, that a representation was made as a statement of fact, which was untrue and known to be untrue by the party making it, or else recklessly made; that it was made with intent to deceive and for the purpose of inducing the other party to act upon it; and that he did in fact rely on it and was induced thereby to act to his injury or damage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nielsen v. Adams
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.