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← 286 Ala. 579 - Pihakis v. Cottrell

Pihakis v. Cottrell’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

60
cited by 60 later decisions
4
states following
December 2007
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “'. . . [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
  2. “". . . ' "[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
  3. “[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.