Bolds v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1980
15 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 Nysewander v. Lowman · Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America v. Metropolitan Casualty Insurance · Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. Stein · Dillman v. Nadlehoffer · Ellis v. . Andrews
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is otherwise, however, if the representations are not merely opinions or estimates as to the value and character of the property, but representations of some material fact, and the avenues of inquiry are not open to the purchaser, as where a party buys from or exchanges with another real estate, and that received by the vendee is situate in another state, at a considerable distance away, as in the present case. Under such circumstances, if false representations are actually made as to the location of the land, the character of the improvements, the nature and quantity of crops produced upon it in the past, and the consequent value of the land, such representations will be material, and, if made with a knowledge of their falsity, and with the intention of being acted upon by the other party, and if relied upon by the purchaser, or the one sustaining that relation, and the latter is deceived, and sustains damage thereby, he can maintain an action therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pennycuff v. Fetter
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.