Cargill v. Sherrod’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Bacchus Industries, Inc. v. Arvin Industries, Inc. (1991), Schmitz v. Smentowski (1990)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · Sierra Blanca Sales Co., Inc. v. Newco Industries, Inc. · Unser v. Unser · Newco Industries, Inc. v. Sierra Blanca Sales Company, Inc. · Jones v. Friedman
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Actionable fraud consists of misrepresentation of a fact, known to be untrue by the maker, and made with an intent to deceive and to induce the other party to act in reliance thereon to his detriment.”
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.