Palmer v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1979
4 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 Parker v. Moulton · Brown v. Leach · Savage v. Stevens · Bradbury v. Haines
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that, to be actionable, the fraud or deceit relied upon must relate distinctly and directly to the contract, must affect its very essence and substance, and it must be material to the contract; for, if it relates to another matter, or to this only in a trivial and unimportant way, or is wholly extrinsic and collateral, it affords no ground of action.””
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.