Watson v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably Gagne v. Bertran (1954), Martens Chevrolet, Inc. v. Seney (1982)
5 federal appellate · 30 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 Shippen v. Bowen · Chatham Furnace Co. v. Moffatt · Munroe v. Pritchett · Osterberg v. Union Trust Co. · Jordan & Sons v. Pickett
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a misrepresentation of material fact. 16 (2) [a] knowledge of the representor of the misrepresentation, or, [b] representations made by the representator without knowledge as to either truth or falsity, or, [c] representations made under circumstances in which the representor ought to have known, if he did not know, of the falsity thereof, 17 (3) an intention that the representation induce another to act on it, and 18 (4) resulting injury to the party acting in justifiable reliance on the representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when it is shown that the statement was material and false, and that the defendant's situation or means of knowledge were such as to make it incumbent upon him as a matter of duty to know whether the statement was true or false, the conclusion is almost irresistible that he did know that which his duty required him to know.”
1 later decision 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.