Scheftel v. Hays’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Notice of faets and circumstances which would -put a man of ordinary prudence and intelligence on inquiry is, in the eye of the law, equivalent to knowledge of all the faets a reasonably diligent inquiry would disclose. * * * The victim of a fraud, who has received notice enough to excite his attention and put him on his guard, cannot evade the duty of speedy and diligent inquiry by merely calling on the chief perpetrator, whose interest it is to conceal the faets, to reiterate or prove his false statements.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. E. Bement & Sons v. La Dow · Scott v. Empire Land Co.

2. ““The right to a rescission or cancellation of a deed or contract because of fraudulent representations is lost, if the party seeking such relief fails, after discovering the falsity of the statements whereby he was influenced to enter into the transaction, to use reasonable diligence to disaffirm it; and notice of facts and -circumstances which would put a man of ordinary prudence and intelligence on inquiry is, in the eye of the law, equivalent to knowledge of all the faets a reasonably diligent inquiry would disclose.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Scott v. Empire Land Co.