Ellis v. Cleavinger’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1989
4 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 Bynum v. Preston · Holland v. Blanchard · Southern Pine Lumber Co. v. Arnold · Ford Motor Co. v. Maddox Motor Co. · Noxon v. Cockburn
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a false representation or concealment of a material fact, (2) the representation must be made with knowledge of the facts, (3) the person to whom it is made must have been ignorant of the truth concerning the matter, (4) it must have been made with the intention that the innocent party should act upon it, (5) he must have been induced by the false representation to act upon it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Tennison · Cook v. Frazier
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.