Woodward v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2001
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Davis v. Upton · Carter v. Boyd Construction Co. · McKay v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that [torts based on misrepresentation] must relate to a present or pre-existing fact, and cannot ordinarily be predicated on unfulfilled promises or statements as to future events.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may entitle [the party] to relief . . . if it is determined the promises were actually made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“having at the time no intention of keeping his agreement.”
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.