Thompson v. Libby’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably 64 N.J. Super. 134 - Deerhurst Estates v. Meadow Homes, Inc. (1960), Slotkin v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York (1980)
6 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on People v. . Stephens · Thompson v. Libby · Whitney v. . Allaire · Mallory v. Leach · Saratoga & Schenectady Rail Road v. Row
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . a person who has discovered the fraud while the contract is still wholly executory to go on and execute it, and then sue for the fraud, looks very much like permitting him to speculate upon the fraud of the other party. It is virtually to allow a man to recover for self-inflicted injuries. The fraud is really consummated, and the damages incurred, by the acceptance of the property and paying for it. And if this is done after the fraud is discovered, the purchaser cannot say that he sustained this damage by reason of the fraud.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Egger · Benz v. Zobel
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.