Valdez v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Schmitz v. Smentowski (1990), Loucks v. Albuquerque National Bank (1966)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 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 Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Flint · Glanzer v. . Shepard · Lawrence v. . Fox · H. R. Moch Co. v. Rensselaer Water Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“They . . [the accountants] owed a duty to third persons, if any, [the bonding company] to whom they knew, or reasonably should have known, their employer intended to exhibit their reports, and upon which they might act to their injury, to make such reports without fraud. But there is no finding that appellees made a fraudulent report, or of a reliance upon appellees’ report by . [the bonding company], nor, of course, that . [the bonding company] was injured by such reliance, so as to bring the case within the doctrine of Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, 255 N.Y. 170 , 174 N.E. 441 , 74 A.L.R. 1139 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stotlar v. Hester“... were or should have been contemplated or might have been foreseen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.