Weisman v. Kaspar’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
24 district · 236 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 264 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Beverly Hills Concepts, Inc. v. Schatz & Schatz, Ribicoff & Kotkin (1998), Suffield Development Associates Ltd. Partnership v. National Loan Investors, L.P. (2002)
24 district · 236 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 Kilduff v. Adams, Inc. · Billington v. Billington · Kimberly-Clark Corp. v. Dubno · Hartford Whalers Hockey Club v. Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co. · Maturo v. Gerard
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 264 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essential elements of an action in common law fraud, as we have repeatedly held, are that: (1) a false representation was made as a statement of fact; (2) it was untrue and known to be untrue by the party making it; (3) it was made to induce the other party to act upon it; and (4) the other party did so act upon that false representation to his injury.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage“Plaintiffs seeking recovery for unjust enrichment must prove (1) that the defendants were benefitted [benefited], (2) that the defendants unjustly did not pay the plaintiffs for the benefits, and (3) that the failure of payment was to the plaintiffs' detriment.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“[1] a wrongful act or threat [2] that left the victim no reasonable alternative, and [3] to which the victim in fact acceded, and that [4] the resulting transaction was unfair to the victim.”
4 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.