Selden v. Burnett’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2002
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Zeman v. Lufthansa German Airlines · 284 F. Supp. 85 - Rusch Factors, Inc. v. Levin · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,781 Olga Hochfelder v. Ernst & Ernst, Leon S. Martin v. Ernst & Ernst · Swenson Trucking & Excavating, Inc. v. Truckweld Equipment Co. · Bevins v. Ballard
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) one who, in the course of his business, profession or employment, or in any other transaction in which he has a pecuniary interest, supplies false information for the guidance of others in their business transactions, is subject to liability for pecuniary loss caused to them by their justifiable relia,nee upon the information, if he fails to exercise reasonable care or competence in obtaining or communicating the information. (2) ... [T]he liability stated in Subsection (1) is limited to loss suffered (a) by the person or one of a limited group of persons for whose benefit and guidance he intends to supply the information or knows that the recipient intends to supply it; and (b) through reliance upon it in a transaction that he intends the information to influence or knows that the recipient so intends or in a substantially similar transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“- “Duty” has been defined as the “expression of the sum total of those considerations of policy which lead the law to say that the particular plaintiff is entitled to protection.””
1 later decision 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.