Patrick v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Mortarino v. Consultant Engineering Services, Inc. (1996), Yuzefovsky v. St. John's Wood Apartments (2001)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 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 Soble v. Herman · Carter v. Carter · Lloyd v. Smith
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Fjraud must relate to a present or a pre-existing fact, and cannot ordinarily be predicated on unfulfilled promises or statements as to future events.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is inadequate to qualify as the clear, cogent, and convincing proof required to establish an action for fraud and deceit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.