Wolff v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1999
12 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 George v. Hesse · Schmidt v. Mesmer · United States Gypsum Co. v. Shields · 31 Tex. Civ. App. 187 - Hollifield v. Landrum · Kennedy v. Bender
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to be well settled in this state that, where one is induced by fraud and deceit to enter into an executory contract, he may, after discovering the fraud and deceit of the other party, go on and perform the contract and hold the wrongdoer liable for such damages as flow from the fraud and deceit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brownlee v. Thrower
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.