Lord v. Colley’s Empirical Analysis
1833
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1982
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Chipman v. Martin
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that an action of this kind can not be sustained, unless the recommendation be both false and fraudulent. Recommendations are generally understood to be nothing more than the opinion of those who give them, resting upon common reputation, and the apparent circumstances of the individual recommended, and not upon any minute examination of his affairs. And it is well known that men, who are. apparently in good credit, and in easy circumstances, turn out to be, in reality, insolvent. It is, therefore, very obvious that a recommendation ought not to be persumed to be fraudulent merely because it happens not to be true.” (p. 102.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.