Howe v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably Aiello v. Ed Saxe Real Estate, Inc. (1985), Holcomb & Hoke Mfg. Co. v. Jones (1924)
1 federal appellate · 60 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 Vail v. . Reynolds · Nysewander v. Lowman · Krumm v. . Beach · Griswold v. Gebbie · Whitney v. . Allaire
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Actual fraud, within the meaning of this chapter, consists in any of the following acts, committed by a party to. the contract, or with his connivance, with intent to deceive another party thereto, or to induce him to enter into the contract: 1. The suggestion, as a fact, of that which is not true, by one who does not believe it to be true. 2. The positive assertion in a manner hot warranted by the information of the person making it, of that which is not. true, though he believes it to be true. * * ” .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garvin v. Harrell““A deceit, within the meaning of the last section, is' either: First, the suggestion, as a fact, of that which is not true, by one who does not believe it to be true. Second, the assertion as a fact of that which is not true, by one who has no reasonable ground for believing it to be true. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garvin v. Harrell““One who wilfully deceives another, with, intent'to induce him to alter his position to' his injury or risk, is liable for any damage which he thereby suffers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garvin v. Harrell
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.