Haddad v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

1945

Citation profile

cited by 20 later decisions

states following

December 2001

most recently cited

20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2001

20 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 Gayne v. Smith · Watertown Savings Bank v. Mattoon · Stanio v. Berner Lohne Co., Inc.

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“the general rule is that . . . silence . . . cannot give rise to an action . . . to set aside the transaction as fraudulent. Certainly this is true as to all facts which are open to discovery upon reasonable inquiry.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 2001 Conn. Super. Ct. 15942 - Finley Assoc. v. Crossroads Inv., No. X03 Cv 99 0499388 S (Dec. 17, 2001) · 2001 Conn. Super. Ct. 16718 - Finley Assoc. v. Crossroads Invest., No. X03 Cv 99 0499388 S (Dec. 17, 2001)
“. . . Except in a few special types of transactions . . . there is no general duty upon a party to a transaction to disclose facts to the other party . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 2001 Conn. Super. Ct. 15942 - Finley Assoc. v. Crossroads Inv., No. X03 Cv 99 0499388 S (Dec. 17, 2001) · 2001 Conn. Super. Ct. 16718 - Finley Assoc. v. Crossroads Invest., No. X03 Cv 99 0499388 S (Dec. 17, 2001)
“a vendor of property may not do anything to conceal from the vendee a material fact affecting it, or say or do anything to divert or forestall an intended inquiry by him, or deliberately hide defects, for, in doing so, he is not merely remaining silent but is taking active steps to mislead”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 4180 - Viscounti v. Pepper Partners, No. Cv99 0065717s (Apr. 5, 2000)

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.