Kolson v. Vembu’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2014
4 federal appellate · 1 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · 88 Ill. 2d 407 - Knox College v. Celotex Corp. · Bank Leumi Le-Israel v. Lee · 113 Wis. 2d 550 - Hansen v. AH Robins, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Illinois courts “have consistently refused to extend the doctrine of fraudulent inducement to vitiate contracts where the complaining party could have discovered the fraud by reading the instrument and had the opportunity to do so. In such cases, any reliance upon the claimed misrepresentation has been held to be unreasonable as a matter of law, so that the contract stands as written.””
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.