Pihakis v. Cottrell’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Nappe v. Anschelewitz, Barr, Ansell & Bonello (1984), 350 So. 2d 391 - International Resorts, Inc. v. Lambert (1977)
60 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 Sparks v. McCreary · Williams v. Bedenbaugh · Maring-Crawford Motor Co. v. Smith · Winters v. Powell · Treadwell Ford, Inc. v. Leek
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'. . . [F]raud, without damage, or damage, without fraud, gives no cause of action; but, where these two do occur, there an action lieth.' Einstein, Hirsch Co. v. Marshall Conley , 58 Ala. 153 , 160 [1877]; Wall v. Graham , 192 Ala. 396 , 399 , 68 So. 298 , 299 [1915].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . ' "[F]raud, without damage, or damage, without fraud, gives no cause of action; but, where these two do occur, there an action lieth. [Citations omitted.] ". . . ' "Deceit and injury must concur. . . . Damage is of the essence of the action of deceit; an essential element to the right of action, and not merely a consequence flowing from it." ' "”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o recover compensatory damages for fraud and deceit, [a] plaintiff must show that he has suffered an actual pecuniary loss as the result of the fraud.”
3 later decisions 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.