Nelson v. Hoff’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1990 · most notably Bethlahmy v. Bechtel (1966), Graves v. Cupic (1954)
32 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 Checketts v. Thompson · Crenshaw v. Crenshaw · Smith v. Johnson · Sorrells v. Clifford · McMahon v. Cooper
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You are further instructed that the plaintiffs are not entitled to relief on the grounds of false representations where they do not rely upon them, but rely on their own judgment or investigations or their own examination of the property involved, or on the advice of third persons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weitzel v. Jukich“It is true that respondents did not raise the question of rental value by cross-complaint. However, it was the duty of appellants to account for the reasonable rental value, if any, of the property in the event they were entitled to recover.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kracl v. Loseke
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.