Brown v. Techdata Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 351 Ill. App. 3d 752 - W.W. Vincent & Co. v. First Colony Life Insurance (2004), United States v. White (1979)
6 federal appellate · 59 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 City Dodge, Inc. v. Gardner · 65 Ga. App. 727 - Brown v. Ragsdale Motor Co. · Lytle v. Scottish American Mortgage Co. · 128 Ga. App. 864 - West Georgia Pulpwood & Timber Co. v. Stephens · East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co. v. Hayes
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plaintiff must show that the defendant made a false, material representation of an existing fact with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard as to whether it was true and that it was with the intent that it be acted upon by the plaintiff; and, further, that the plaintiff acted upon the misrepresentation in reasonable reliance of its truth in a manner reasonably foreseeable by the defendant and to the plaintiffs proximate injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Questions of fraud, the truth and materiality of representations made by a [seller], and whether the [buyer] could have protected himself by the exercise of proper diligence are, except in plain and indisputable cases, questions for the jury.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[a] contract may be rescinded at the instance of the party defrauded; but, in order to rescind he must promptly, upon discovery of the fraud, restore or offer to restore to the other whatever he has received by virtue of the contract if it be of any value.'”
2 later decisions 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.