McAleer v. Horsey’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Weiss v. United States (1941), Martens Chevrolet, Inc. v. Seney (1982)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No better rule can be given for deciding the question than this: If the fraud be such that, had it not been practiced, the contract would not have been made or the transaction completed, then it is material to it; but, if it be shown or made probable that the same thing would have been done in the same way if the fraud had not been practiced, it cannot be deemed material.””
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.