misrepresentation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 80 U.S. 379 - Slaughter's Administrator v. Gerson · 1871Most cited · 212 citing opinions
The misrepresentation which will vitiate a contract of sale, and prevent a court of equity from aiding its enforcement, must not only relate to a material matter constituting an inducement to the contract, but it must relate to a matter respecting which the complaining party did not possess at hand the means of knowledge; and it must be a misrepresentation upon which he relied, and by which he was actually misled to his injury.
How often courts cite the case defining “misrepresentation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “misrepresentation” — 212 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.