Cousineau v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Mahler v. Keenan Real Estate, Inc. (1994), State v. First National Bank of Anchorage (1982)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Gernat v. Gernat · Carpenter v. Donohoe · Yorke v. Taylor · Kannavos v. Annino · Humber v. Morton
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We conclude that a purchaser of land may rely on material representations made by the seller and is not obligated to ascertain whether such representations are truthful. “A buyer of land, relying on an innocent misrepresentation, is barred from recovery only if the buyer’s acts in failing to discover defects were wholly irrational, preposterous, or in bad faith.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“First, there must have been a misrepresentation. Second, the misrepresentation must have been either fraudulent or material. Third, the misrepresentation must have induced the recipient to make the contract. Fourth, the recipient’s reliance on the misrepresentation must have been justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Curran“Materiality is a mixed question of law and fact. A material fact is one “to which a reasonable man might be expected to attach importance in making his choice of action.” It is a fact which could reasonably be expected to influence someone’s judgment or conduct concerning a transaction.”
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.