Bennett v. Hodge’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably 79 Ill. 2d 282 - Soules v. General Motors Corp. (1980), 300 F. Supp. 210 - Contract Buyers League v. F & F INVESTMENT (1969)
22 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 Johnson v. Lane · Seely v. Rowe · Shlensky v. Shlensky · White v. Smith · Wharton v. Meyers
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action for fraud and deceit must - show six elements in order to afford relief: (1) The misrepresentation must , be in form a statement of fact; (2) it must be made for the purpose of influencing the other party to act; (3) it must be untrue; (4) the party making the statement must know or believe it to be untrue; (5) the person to whom it is made must believe and rely on the statement; and (6) the state- ' ment must be 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.