Van Meter v. Bent Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 14 Cal. 4th 394 - Rosenthal v. Great Western Financial Securities Corp. (1996), 21 Cal. 3d 671 - Sun'n Sand, Inc. v. United California Bank (1978)
7 federal appellate · 56 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 Seeger v. Odell · 37 Cal. 2d 696 - M. F. Kemper Construction Co. v. City of Los Angeles · California Trust Co. v. Cohn · 18 Cal. 2d 863 - Donnelly v. Southern Pacific Co. · Hefferan v. Freebairn
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is even more reason for not barring a plaintiff from equitable relief where his negligence is due in part to his reliance in good faith upon the false representations of a defendant, although the statements were not made with intent to deceive. A defendant who misrepresents the facts and induces the plaintiff to rely on his statements should not be heard in an equitable action to assert that the reliance was negligent unless plaintiff’s conduct, in the light of his intelligence and information, is preposterous or irrational.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““1. An unconscious ignorance or forgetfulness of a fact past or present, material to the contract; or, “2. Belief in the present existence of a thing material to the contract, which does not exist, or in the past existence of such a thing, which has not existed.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ It is settled that, even in the absence of any misrepresentation, the negligent failure of a party to know or discover facts as to which both parties are under a mistake does not preclude rescission or reformation because of the mistake.””
3 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.