Meyer v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1998
5 federal appellate · 11 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 Judd v. Walker · McDonald Ex Rel. Baber v. Kansas City Gas Co. · Banta v. Union Pacific Railroad · Salmon Ex Rel. Salmon v. Brookshire · Lowther v. Hays
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Comprehensively stated, the elements of actionable fraud consist of: (1) A representation. (2) Its falsity. (3) Its materiality. (4) The speaker’s knowledge of its falsity or ignorance of its truth. (5) His intent that it should be acted on by the person and in the manner reasonably contemplated. (6) The hearer’s ignorance of its falsity. (7) His reliance on its truth. (8)His right to rely thereon. (9) And his consequent and proximate injury.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cannon v. Bingman
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.