39 Wash. 2d 826 - Salter v. Heiser’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1997 · most notably Burgess v. Premier Corp. (1984), John S. Tytus v. Premier Corporation (1984)
8 federal appellate · 19 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 Lawson v. Vernon · 60 Ohio App. 39 - Reliance Art Metal, Inc. v. Western Bank & Trust Co. · Thomson v. Pentecost · Voellmeck v. Harding · Pronger v. Old National Bank
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is unquestionably true that the fraud may result in a loss in operating a business, where, had the state of things been as represented, it would have returned a profit; that element of damages is reflected in the difference in values computed under the “benefit of bargain” measure of damages.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While this court has applied the “benefit of bargain” measure of damages [citations omitted], it has not been suggested by this court that it is the exclusive measure of damages that may be applied. . . . Where he seeks to recover damages not inherent in the “benefit of bargain” rule, he will be awarded damages for all losses proximately caused by defendant’s fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“benefit of the bargain” rule. 6 Thus, where there are no special damages proximately caused by the misrepresentation, the measure of general damages that will be applied is”
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.