Finger v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1994
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Buchanan v. Burnett and Wife · Mason v. Peterson · Morris-Buick Co. v. Davis · Nelson v. San Antonio Traction Company · Southern Pacific Company v. Porter
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The distinction between partial or total failure of consideration of a contract by reason of fraud or mutual mistake, as a defense . . ., on the one hand, and the right of action for damages for breach of or failure to comply with a contract, on the other is clearly drawn. ... In the former the relief may be awarded in abatement of the price contracted to be paid, and when so sought it is purely defensive matter; whereas the right to relief for breach of contract is clearly independent of the obligation of the purchaser to pay the contract price, and relief is awarded in a suit for the price only by way of setoff or counterclaim, as to which limitation is a recognized plea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) false statement, alone, does not create a cause of action for fraud . . . there must be reliance by the complainant to his detriment.”
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.