MacLaren v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Hyde v. Shine (1905), Peine v. Murphy (1962)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 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 Valton v. . the National Fund Life Assurance Company · Merchants' Exchange Bank v. Luckow · Martin v. Hill · Cochran v. Stewart · Barber v. Kennedy
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a party is induced to enter into a contract by fraudulent representations as to a fact -which he deems material, and upon which he has a right to rely, he may rescind the contract upon discovery of the fraud, and the party in the wrong should not be heard to say that no real injury can result from the fact misrepresented."”
2 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.