Wolfe v. Chrysler Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
734 F.2d 701 · 1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2012
5 federal appellate ·
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 Sweat v. Miller Brewing Co. · 82 Ga. App. 779 - Studebaker Corporation v. Nail · 139 Ga. App. 697 - UIV CORP. v. Oswald · 154 Ga. App. 127 - Tolar Construction Co. v. GAF Corp. · 123 Ga. App. 679 - Rustin Oldsmobile, Inc. v. Kendricks
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Georgia law, the elements of a cause of action for fraud are (1) a false representation made by the defendant; (2) scienter, or knowledge of the statement’s falsity at the time the statement was made; (3) an intention to induce the plaintiff to act or refrain from acting in reliance on the statement; (4) the plaintiff’s justifiable reliance; and (5) damage to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.