Laughlin v. Hopkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Walker v. Sheldon (1961), First National Bank Co. v. Insurance Co. of North America (1979)
24 federal appellate · 44 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 Consolidated Coal Co. v. Haenni · Kujek v. . Goldman · Endsley v. Johns · 45 Tex. Civ. App. 513 - Western Cottage Piano & Organ Co. v. Anderson · Geohegan v. Union Elevated Railroad
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the wrong involves some violation of duty springing from a relation of trust or confidence, or where the fraud is gross, or the case presents other extraordinary or exceptional circumstances clearly showing malice and willfulness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'where the false representations are wantonly and designedly made.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The better rule, we think, is that interest will be allowed when the demand is of such a nature that its exact pecuniary amount can be ascertained by computation and when the time from which interest, if allowed, must run can be ascertained. Interest is given from the time when the defendant should have paid the amount due, . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.