Benoit v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably Monge v. Beebe Rubber Co. (1974), 18 Cal. 2d 117 - Jentick v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (1941)
3 federal appellate · 10 district · 30 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 Van Weel v. Winston · Pittsfield Cottonwear Manufacturing Co. v. Pittsfield Shoe Co. · Wood v. . Amory · Bullard v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Page v. Parker
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fraudulent concealment of known facts with intent to mislead, and which in fact does mislead, . . . does not constitute actionable fraud, unless there be some obligation which the law recognizes to disclose the facts concealed.”
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.