Fry v. Mount’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Berg v. Norand Corp. (1999), Schoff v. Combined Insurance Co. of America (1999)
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Belknap, Inc. v. Hale · Larsen v. United Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Des Moines · Ryan v. Kanne · Fogel v. Trustees of Iowa College · French v. Foods, Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On one hand, manufacturers and dealers of merchandise have not generally been considered to be in the business of supplying information. Their businesses involve making, selling and servicing products, and any information provided during the course of the business is incidental. Similarly, sellers of a business are not themselves in the business of supplying information. On the other hand, the duty has been readily applied to accountants and investment brokers. These professions directly involve the supply of information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Restatement states, One who, in the course of his business, profession or employment, or in any other transaction in which he has a pecuniary interest, supplies false information for the guidance of others in their business transactions, is. subject to liability for pecuniary loss caused to them by their justifiable reliance upon the information, if he fails to exercise reasonable care or competence in obtaining or communicating the information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“our decision [reversing a judgment for the employer in a wrongful termination of employment case] turned on the question of whether terms of a collective bargaining agreement preempted the plaintiffs’ claim, not whether the claim itself was viable.”
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.