Buttitta v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2013
5 federal appellate · 16 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 Leonard v. Springer · N. C. Antle & Bro. v. Sexton · Drew v. Beall · Wheeler v. F. A. Buck & Co. · People v. Harrington
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Wherever a party states a matter which might otherwise be only an opinion, but does not state it as the expression of the opinion of his own, but as an affirmative fact material to the transaction, so that the other party may reasonably treat it as a fact and rely upon it as such, then the statement clearly becomes an affirmation of the fact within the meaning of the rule against fraudulent misrepresentation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether language used is a matter of opinion or a positive averment of a fact depends largely upon the facts of each case.”
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.