Wheeler v. Baars’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 33 state decisions

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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) a misrepresentation of material fact. 16 (2) [a] knowledge of the representor of the misrepresentation, or, [b] representations made by the representator without knowledge as to either truth or falsity, or, [c] representations made under circumstances in which the representor ought to have known, if he did not know, of the falsity thereof, 17 (3) an intention that the representation induce another to act on it, and 18 (4) resulting injury to the party acting in justifiable reliance on the representation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bobby Jones Garden Apartments, Inc. v. Suleski

2. “It is true that I lied to you, and for the purpose of defrauding you, but you were guilty of negligence — of want of ordinary care — in believing that I told the truth; and, because you trusted to my word, when you ought to have suspected me of falsehood, I am entitled to the fruits of my falsehood and cunning, and you are without remedy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 97 So. 2d 21 - BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUC. v. Everett W. Martin & Son

3. “[a] false representation of a material fact, made with knowledge of its falsity, to a person ignorant thereof, with intention that it shall be acted upon, followed by reliance upon and by action thereon amounting to substantial change of position.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson Enterprises of Jacksonville, Inc. v. FPL Group, Inc.