Bower v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 1004 · 1992
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Vicom, Inc. v. Harbridge Merchant Services, Inc. (1994), Richard M. Perlman and Perlman Marketplace Investors v. Samuel Zell (1999)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Foman v. Davis · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Stutzman v. Board of Education · 69 Ill. 2d 320 - Steinberg v. Chicago Medical School · Karazanos v. Navistar International Transportation Corp.
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to survive the pleading stage, a claimant must be able to point to specific, objective manifestations of fraudulent intent — a scheme or device. If he cannot, it is in effect presumed that he cannot prove facts at trial entitling him to relief. If the rule were otherwise, anyone with a breach of contract claim could open the door to tort damages by alleging that the promises broken were never intended to be performed. Presumably, it is this result that the Illinois rule seeks to avoid.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A deposition may qualify as a signed writing for statute of frauds purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An amendment is futile when it ... could not withstand a motion to dismiss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.