31 Cal. App. 4th 601 - Geernaert v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Ernst & Young, L.L.P. v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. (2001), 117 Cal. App. 4th 635 - Whiteley v. Philip Morris, Inc. (2004)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 35 Cal. 3d 197 - Committee on Children's Television, Inc. v. General Foods Corp. · 5 Cal. 4th 1082 - Mirkin v. Wasserman · Gagne v. Bertran · 213 Cal. App. 2d 729 - Lingsch v. Savage · 50 Cal. 3d 728 - Garcia v. Superior Court
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'ha[d] information that would lead a reasonable man to conclude that there is an especial likelihood that it [would] reach those persons [similarly situated to the plaintiff] and [would] influence their conduct.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The maker of a fraudulent misrepresentation is subject to liability for pecuniary loss to another who acts in justifiable reliance upon it if the misrepresentation, although not made directly to the other, is made to a third person and the maker intends or has reason to expect that its terms will be repeated or its substance communicated to the other, and that it will influence his conduct in the transaction or type of transaction involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if defendant makes the representation to a particular class of persons, he is deemed to have deceived everyone in that class”
2 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.