Roda v. Berko’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably 131 Ill. 2d 145 - HPI Health Care Services, Inc. v. Mt. Vernon Hospital, Inc. (1989), 69 Ill. 2d 320 - Steinberg v. Chicago Medical School (1977)
29 federal appellate · 80 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 Gage v. Lewis · Gillespie v. Fulton Oil & Gas Co. · Linington v. Strong · People ex rel. Ellis v. Healy · Bielby v. Bielby
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A misrepresentation, in order to constitute fraud which will warrant a court of equity in rescinding a contract, must contain the following elements; It must be a representation in the form of a statement of a material fact, made for the purpose of inducing the other party to act. It must be false and known by the party making it to be false, or not actually believed by him, on reasonable grounds, to be true. The party to whom it is made must be ignorant of its falsity, must reasonably believe it to be time, must act thereon to his damage, and in so acting must rely upon the truth of the statement. Bouxsein v. First Nat. Bank, 292 Ill. 500 ; etc.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * in cases where the false promise or representation of intention or of future conduct is the scheme or device to accomplish the fraud and thereby cheat and defraud another of his property, equity will right the wrong by restoring the parties to the positions they occupied before the fraud was committed. ° ° *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In none of the cases cited by defendant were facts shown establishing that the promise or representation was a deliberate fraud by which a party had been induced to act to his damage, and in none of them was the existence of the fraud relied on shown by anything other than the broken promise.”
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.