Trainer v. Fort’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1976 · most notably Evans v. Penn Mutual Life Insurance (1936), Henes v. McGovern (1934)
25 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 Nanty-Glo Boro. v. American Surety Co. · Reel v. Elder · Royal Ins. v. Beatty · Lindemann v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . A person may sometimes be impelled to silence by the belief that his security will be best promoted thereby, and ‘then no inference of assent can be drawn from that silence.’ ””
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.