Showalter, Inc. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2014
12 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 DeHaan v. DeHaan · Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners v. Rittenhouse · In Re Marriage of Snemis · Whiteco Properties, Inc. v. Thielbar · Ethyl Corp. v. Forcum-Lannom Associates, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. A material representation of past or existing facts which 2. was false, 3. was made with knowledge or in reckless ignorance of the falsity, 4. was relied upon by the complaining party, and 5. proximately caused the complaining party injury.”
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.