6 Haw. App. 188 - Shaffer v. Earl Thacker Co., Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions

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

1. “the material elements of the tort of negligent misrepresentation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cunha v. Ward Foods, Inc. · Cunha v. Ward Foods, Inc.

2. “Information Negligently Supplied for the Guidance of Others (1)One who, in the course of his [or her] business, profession or employment, or in any other transaction in which he [or she] 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 [or she] fails to exercise reasonable care or competence in obtaining or communicating the information. (2) Except as stated in Subsection (3), the liability stated in Subsection (1) is limited to loss suffered (a) by the person or one of a limited group of persons for whose benefit and guidance he [or she] intends to supply the information or knows that the recipient intends to supply it; and (b) through reliance upon it in a transaction that he [or she] intends the information to influence or knows that the recipient so intends or in a substantially similar transaction. (3) The liability of one who is under a public duty to give the information extends to loss suffered by any of the class of persons for whose benefit the duty is created, in any of the transaction in which it is intended to protect them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Bronster v. United States Steel Corp.

3. “§ 552. Information Negligently Supplied for the Guidance of Others (1) 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 · from the majority
   e.g. 58 F. Supp. 2d 1162 - UCSF-Stanford Health Care v. Hawaii Management Alliance Benefits & Services, Inc.