Snell v. Cornehl’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Woodworker's Supply, Inc. v. Principal Mutual Life Insurance (1999), Chavez v. Manville Products Corp. (1989)
4 federal appellate · 33 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 O'MEARA v. Commercial Insurance Company · Lumpkins v. McPhee · Montoya v. Moore · Frear v. Roberts · McLean v. Paddock
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a breach of a legal or equitable duty irrespective of the moral guilt of the fraud feasor, and it is not necessary that actual dishonesty of purpose nor intent to deceive exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gabriele v. Gabriele
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.