Sager v. Friedman’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably First Nationwide Bank v. Gelt Funding Corp. (1994), Donald Terwilliger Jr v. Donald L Terwilliger III and John Terwilliger
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 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 Reno v. . Bull · Vail v. . Reynolds · Ochs v. . Woods · Weigel v. . Cook
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The injured party is entitled to the benefit of his bargain.... That loss may include the profits which he would have derived from performance of the contract.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he value of the stock ... deposited as collateral for the loan, and the value it would have had if the defendants' representations as to the financial condition of that company had been true, furnishes no measure of any loss suffered by the plaintiff through wrongful inducement to make the loan.”
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.