Sell v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1933
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 Provident Loan Trust Co. v. McIntosh · Bell v. Keepers · Basye v. Paola Refining Co. · Neal v. Reynolds
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court instructed the jury that if the defendant was guilty of fraud it was the duty of the plaintiff to act promptly on discovery of the fraud, to return or offer to return the goods, and to demand restoration of the title to his land; and that if he said nothing and continued to sell the goods, he waived the fraud and could not complain of it.” (p. 153.}”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Van Natta v. Snyder
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.