Whitney v. Bissell’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2001
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Strong v. . Strong · Scott v. Walton · McLeod v. Despain · Vaughn v. Smith · La Grande National Bank v. Blum
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule as to the knowledge of the fraud before there would be an acquiescence therein is subject to the principle that notice of acts and circumstances which would put a man of ordinary prudence and intelligence upon inquiry is equivalent in the eyes of the law to knowledge of all the facts a reasonably diligent inquiry would disclose: 6 Cyc. 305; Clark on Contracts, p. 236.””
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.