Browne v. Maxfield’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Carlson v. Arnot-Ogden Memorial Hospital (1990), Miller v. Aluminum Co. of America (1988)
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Geary v. United States Steel Corp. · Hamil v. Bashline · 318 Pa. Super. 90 - Delahanty v. First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(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. (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 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 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 transactions in which it is intended to protect them, (emphasis supplied)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This evidence is adequate to allow a jury to determine that the contract would have been breached by payment below $75,000 or by failure to provide [the plaintiff] with those benefits. The fact that the exact salary amount ... and other fringe benefits were not pinned down is not sufficient to defeat a finding that a contract was made absent any evidence that the missing terms were material to the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Padilla v. RRA, INC.
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.