Masingill v. EMC Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 26 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Bank v. Thermo Elemental Inc. (2008), Cumis Insurance Society, Inc. v. BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. (2009)
8 federal appellate · 26 district · 42 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 Foman v. Davis · Wilson v. United States · McEvoy Travel Bureau, Inc. v. Norton Co. · Starr v. Fordham · Kuwaiti Danish Computer Co. v. Digital Equipment Corp.
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the Defendant made a false representation of a material fact; (2) the Defendant had actual knowledge that the misrepresentation was false; (3) the Defendant made the false representation with intent to deceive the Plaintiff and to induce him or her to thereon; (4) the Plaintiff reasonably relied on the false representation; (5) the Plaintiff suffered harm as a result of the reliance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is unreasonable as a matter of law to rely on prior oral representations that are (as a matter of fact) specifically contradicted by the terms of a written contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reliance by the plaintiff must be reasonable.”
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.