Edwards v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably Vernon Fire & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Sharp (1976), Scott v. Bodor, Inc. (1991)
27 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 Rochester Bridge Co. v. McNeill · Adams v. Slate · Hunt v. Elliott · Levi v. Kraminer · Dennison v. Swerdlove
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Deception, as that term is used in the law of fraud, is something that operates upon the mind of the victim. When the person who claims to have been defrauded solemnly states under oath that he did not believe the alleged false representations, the inevitable conclusion must be that he was not deceived thereby. There is no other field of inquiry for a court to explore under such circumstances.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The essential elements of actionable fraud are representations, falsity, scienter, deception and injury.”
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.