Tedder v. Riggin’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Price v. Southern Home Insurance (1930), Dorse v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1987)
2 district · 19 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 White v. . Madison · Hall v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Wallace v. Bentley · Senter v. Monroe
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such cases the rule of compensation seeks to put the party misled back into the condition in which he was before he acted on the asserted authority of the defendant to make a contract for another. Where a misrepresentation has been relied on by the plaintiff to his detriment, the measure of recovery is not the difference between the plaintiff's pecuniary condition if the representation had been true and his condition under the actual facts, but rather the difference between what the plaintiff had before he acted on the representation and what he had afterward. This represents his actual loss... . In this action the plaintiff cannot recover for profits which he might have made if the one for whom the defendant assumed to act had performed the agreement which the defendant made without authority; the defendant not being liable on the unauthorized agreement.”
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.