Wise v. Pena’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Chemetron Corporation v. Business Funds, Inc. (1982), Fortune Production Co. v. Conoco, Inc. (2000)
5 federal appellate · 18 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 Burt v. Lochausen · Wagner v. Foster · Rourke v. Garza · Daniel v. Goesl · Stanfield v. O'BOYLE
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a person induced by fraud to enter into an agreement continues to accept benefits under the agreement after he becomes aware of the fraud, or if he conducts himself so as to recognize the agreement as binding”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Once a contract has been ratified by the defrauded party ..., the defrauded party waives any right of rescission or damages.”
2 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.