Lowrey v. Dingmann’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 1998 · most notably Hanson v. Ford Motor Co. (1960), Clements Auto Company v. The Service Bureau Corporation (1971)
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 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 Lehman v. Hansord Pontiac Co. Inc. · Wolfersberger v. Miller · Bergquist v. Kreidler · Wallace v. Hallowell · Becker v. McKinnie
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [T]he measure of damages is the difference between the actual value of the property received and the price paid for it, and in addition thereto such other or special damages as were naturally and proximately caused by the fraud prior to its discovery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under the foregoing rule of damages, it is clear that evidence was properly admitted upon, and the jury was correctly allowed to consider, the items of damage relating to injury to plaintiffs’ reputation, settlements with subsequent purchasers, and the loss of those profits which had been actually earned prior to the discovery of the fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The party guilty of the fraud is liable for all out-of-pocket-loss damages proximately caused by the fraud, even though such damages were not within the contemplation of the wrongdoer or his adversary.”
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.