Letellier v. Small’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Gross v. Sussex Inc. (1993), Jourdain v. Dineen (1987)
2 federal appellate · 18 district · 24 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 Coffin v. Dodge · Bixler v. Wright · Eaton v. Sontag · Eastern Trust & Banking Co. v. Cunningham · 203 Cal. App. 2d 567 - Grange Co. v. Simmons
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant is liable for fraud or deceit if he (1) makes a false representation (2) of a material fact (3) with knowledge of its falsity or in reckless disregard of whether it is true or false (4) for the purpose of inducing another to act or to refrain from acting in reliance upon it, and (5) the plaintiff justifiably relies upon the representation as true and acts upon it to his damage.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.