St. John v. Hendrickson’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably The Edward Barron Estate Co. v. the Woodruff Co. (1912), Scott v. Bodor, Inc. (1991)
5 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Love v. Oldham · McQueen v. State Bank
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We fully recognize and approve the rule that a party may retain what he receives, stand by his bargain, and recover for the loss caused him by the fraud. * * * We neither hold, nor mean to hold, that affirmance by retention of the thing bargained for cuts off an action for damages. We do hold that where a party, with full knowledge of all the material facts, does an act which indicates his intention to stand to the contract and waive all right of action for fraud, he cannot maintain an action for the original wrong practiced upon him. Where the affirmance of the contract is equivalent to a ratification, all right of action is gone. * * * Nor are we unmindful of the settled rule that the defrauded party has an election of remedies. * * * We do decide that where a parts’, with full knowledge, declines to repudiate an action known to him to be fraudulent, and fully and expressly ratifies it, he can neither rescind nor maintain an action for damages.””
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.