Rice v. Strunk’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Colonial Penn Insurance v. Guzorek (1997), Cooper Industries, LLC v. City of South Bend (2009)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 150 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 Webb v. Jarvis · Mullin v. Municipal City of South Bend · 589 F. Supp. 1235 - Quintel Corp., N v. v. Citibank, N.A. · In re Walker · Hooks SuperX, Inc. v. McLaughlin
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) a duty owing by the party to be charged to the complaining party due to their relationship; (ii) violation of that duty by the making of deceptive material misrepresentations of past or existing facts or remaining silent when a duty to speak exists; (iii) reliance thereon by the complaining party; (iv) injury to the complaining party as a proximate result thereof; and (v) the gaining of an advantage by the party to be charged at the expense of the complaining party.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“The elements of actual fraud are: (i) material misrepresentation of past or existing facts by the party to be charged (ii) which was false (iii) which was made with knowledge or reckless ignorance of the falseness (iv) was relied upon by the complaining party and (v) proximately caused the complaining party injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“to exercise ordinary skill and knowledge.”
2 later decisions 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.