Lydle v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2006
2 federal appellate · 2 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘That a party seeking rescission of a contract must return, or offer to return, what he has received under it, and thus put the other party as nearly as is possible in his situation before the contract, is the law. But this rule is wholly an equitable one; impossible or unreasonable things which do not tend to accomplish equity in the particular transaction are not required.’ In some cases even where restoration of the consideration is entirely possible, it has not been required. * * * or when the party seeking relief has suffered for any reason by the fraud a greater loss than the consideration which he retains.””
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.