Boriss v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 1999 · most notably Hall Motor Company v. Furman (1970), Old Southern Life Insurance Company v. Woodall (1976)
51 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 Cartwright v. Braly · Southern Building & Loan Ass'n v. Dinsmore · Alabama MacHinery & Supply Co. v. Caffey · Southern Building & Loan Ass'n v. Bryant · Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Brackin
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all cases of deceit, knowledge of a falsehood constitutes an essential element. A ... reckless representation of facts as true, which the party may not know to be false, if intended to deceive, is equivalent to a knowledge of the falsehood.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Lewis““There was no proof of any actual intent to deceive appellees by Mr. Montgomery, the salesman for appellants. . . . Hence our conclusion above that the award of punitive damages was not justified. . . . ” ( 262 Ala. at 179 , 77 So.2d at 915 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . malicious, oppressive, or gross, the representations being made with a knowledge of their falseness (or so recklessly made as to amount to the same thing), and with the purpose of injuring the plaintiff . . . .”
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.