Horne v. Cloninger’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Newton v. Standard Fire Insurance (1976), River Birch Associates v. City of Raleigh (1990)
26 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 Brooks v. Ervin Construction Company · Swinton v. Savoy Realty Co. · Solon Lodge No. 9 Knights of Pythias Co. v. Ionic Lodge Free Ancient & Accepted, Masons No. 72 Co. · Hutchins v. Davis · Lunn v. . Shermer
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The courts have been careful to define the rights of parties to a fraudulent transaction. The purchaser has the right at his election to rescind or to keep the property and recover the difference between its actual value and its value as represented. (Citation omitted.) ‘The great weight of authority sustains the general, rule that a person acquiring property by virtue of a commercial transaction, who has been defrauded by false representations . . . may recover as damages in a tort action the difference between the actual value of the property at the time of making the contract and the value that it would have possessed if the representation had been true.’ ” (Citations omitted.) Horne v. Cloninger, 256 N.C. 102, 104 , 123 S.E. 2d 112, 113 (1961).”
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.