Bennett v. Finley’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Anaya (1967), Maxey v. Quintana (1972)
28 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 Bell v. Lammon · Berrendo Irrigated Farms Co. v. Jacobs · Alford v. Rowell · Thrams v. Block · Locke v. Murdoch
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The representation was material in its bearing on defendant’s willingness to contract. If untrue, whether made innocently or with fraudulent intent, it was actionable, when relied upon by defendant, as the trial court found it was.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ham v. Hart
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.