Dolan v. Rabenberg’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Heberer v. Shell Oil Co. (1988), Tietjens v. General Motors Corporation (1967)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Orlann v. Laederich · Oganaso v. Mellow · Continental Jewelry Co. v. Cunningham · Wolfersberger v. Miller · Menke v. Rovin
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the difference between the value of the property as represented and the actual value of the property at the time of sale; and it is also true that this rule enables the purchaser to recover the so-called `benefit of his bargain'. * * * It follows that a resale by the purchaser, even at a price which enables him to realize an over-all profit on the transaction, does not affect the measure of damages, i. e., damages are not decreased because of a subsequent advantageous disposition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Atkins“Proof of substantial injury and damage is essential to recovery in an action for fraud and deceit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lammers v. Greulich
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.