Hall v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1961
1 district · 7 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fraud must, therefore, be material to the transaction. If the representations relate to another matter, or to the one in dispute in but a trivial and unimportant manner, they will afford no sufficient ground to set aside the contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““False representations, no matter how acted upon, will not be sufficient to set aside an agreement otherwise valid, unless they were material.””
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.