Adams v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Northwestern Public Service Co. (1951), Channel Master Corp. v. Aluminium Limited Sales, Inc. (1958)
10 federal appellate · 28 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 George West Co v. Lea · Gratiot County State Bank v. Johnson ex rel. St. Louis Chemical Co. · Adams v. . Gillig · Urtz v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. · General Rubber Co. v. . Benedict
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a false representation as to a state of mind may be a false representation of a material fact (Deyo v. Hudson, 225 N.Y. [602] 605, 612 [ 122 N.E. 635 ]), it does not follow that every broken promise acted upon is actionable. Mere promissory statements as to what will be done in the future are not actionable. (People v. Miller, 169 N.Y. 339, 350 [ 62 N.E. 418 .]) It may well be that [the promisor] intended to help the company but with the best of intentions changed his mind when he discovered that its financial condition was hopeless. 21”
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.