Bush v. Sprague’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Martens v. Reilly (1901), Roche v. Blair (1943)
24 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 People ex rel. Attorney General v. Utica Insurance · Kimball v. Harman · People ex rel. Keeler v. Robertson · Osburn v. Lovell · British Commercial Life Insurance v. Commissioners of Taxes & Assessments
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No action shall be brought to charge any person, upon or by reason of any favorable representation or assurance, made concerning the character, conduct, credit, ability, trade or dealings of any other person, unless such representation or assurance be made in writing, and signed by the party to be charged thereby, or by some person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Conspiracy is not the ground of these actions on the case. The cause of action does not result from the conspiracy, but from the thing done and the damage flowing from it. Here, it is the fraud and damage. Conspiracy, by reason of the connection it involves among the conspirators, may cause individuals to be responsible, who, but for the conspiracy, would not be responsible at all.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Here, then, is a case where the fraud was claimed to have been begun by the signing and filing of false assertions in the articles of association, which, it may be remarked, would thus far at least, bring the case within the terms of the statute, and justify the court in refusing, as it did refuse, to charge that there was no evidence of false representations written and signed.””
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.