Pryor v. Oak Ridge Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Columbus Hotel Corp. v. Hotel Management Co. (1934), Willis v. Fowler (1931)
6 federal appellate · 55 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 Beaver v. Taylor · Norton v. Jones · Delaney v. Jackson · Harrington v. Rutherford · Rigdon v. Walcott
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The last element of a misrepresentation, in order that it may be the ground for any relief, affirmative or defensive, in equity or at law, is its materiality. The statement of facts of which it consists must not only be relied upon as an inducement to some action, but it must also be so material to the interests of the party thus relying and acting upon it, that he is pecuniarily prejudiced by its falsity, is placed in a worse position than he otherwise would have been.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n truth and in fact, the said R.E.L. Pryor was to receive a sum of money, and did receive a large sum of money, as his commission, and also received certain notes as commission, all of which he retained and did not divulge to the corporation or its stockholders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Casey v. Cohan“If [R.E.L. Pryor] did so deceive his principal and associates and did receive a secret profit, their remedy is at law or by a suit in equity for an accounting, and not by a suit in equity to rescind the contract....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Casey v. Cohan
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.