Hull v. Flinders’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1982
4 federal appellate · 8 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 Simon v. Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Co. · 106 Cal. App. 745 - Snyder v. City Bond & Finance Co. · Kingman & Co. v. Stoddard · Blewett v. Ward
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is based on the theory that one who promises another to do something in the future as a condition or inducement to him to do anything, impliedly asserts a present intent to carry out his promise; that the intention to deceive is a condition of mind, which, when it exists, is as much a fact as is a condition of the body, notwithstanding that it is much more difficult to prove; and that, therefore, a misstatement of a man’s mind is a misstatement of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]o render nonperformance fraudulent the intention not to perform must exist when the promise is made, and if the promise is made in good faith when the contract is entered into there is no fraud though the promisor subsequently changes his mind and fails or refuses to perform.”
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.