Gaston v. Hartzell’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably 284 Pa. Super. 81 - Anthony v. Koppers Co., Inc. (1980), Ramsey v. Culpepper (1984)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 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 Rosane v. Senger · Berry v. Branner · Layton v. Allen · In Re Goldsworthy's Estate · Frohs v. Greene
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]rrespective of the good faith with which a false representation is made, if it is justifiably relied on by the purchaser, he has no duty to make inquiries or examination of the misrepresentation, unless he had knowledge of his own or of facts which should arouse suspicion and cast doubt upon the truth of the statement made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramsey v. Culpepper“actions for relief, on the ground of fraud or mistake, and in actions for injuries to, or conversion of property,” which are not claims in this action. N.M.Stat.Ann. § 37-1-7. This provision also applies to “constructive fraud,” such as “fraudulent concealment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he law favors the right of action rather than the right of limitation.”
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.