gross misrepresentation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 4 U.S. 250 - COCHRAN v. Cummings · 1802Most cited · 5 citing opinions
Wherever there is a gross misrepresentation of facts, relating to the subject of a contract, the contract is fraudulent and void.
How often courts cite the case defining “gross misrepresentation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “gross misrepresentation” — 5 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.