Boatwright v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2018
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Lee v. Thomas Et Ux · Skaggs v. Gannon · Chandler v. Chandler · James v. James · Mid-Valley Pipeline Co. v. Anderson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Actual fraud ... consists in successful deception intentionally practiced to induce another to part with property or some legal right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“consists in successful deception intentionally practiced to induce another to part with property or some legal right. In other words, there must be some material misrepresentation made with the knowledge that it was false and with the intent that it be acted upon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mays v. Mays“an actual or threatened violation or restraint on a man's person, contrary to law, to compel him to enter into a contract or to discharge one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mays v. Mays
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.