Wright v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Trenholm v. Ratcliff (1983), Ucc v. Jb Haralson
8 federal appellate · 15 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 Stanfield v. O'BOYLE · Wilson v. Jones · Woo v. Great Southwestern Acceptance Corp. · El Paso Development Company v. Ravel · Boles v. Aldridge
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]epresentations as to matters not equally open to parties are legally statements of fact and not opinions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“pecuniary loss suffered otherwise as a consequence of the recipient's reliance upon the truth of the representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. Bennett
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.