14 Utah 2d 379 - Elder v. Clawson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably In Re Curtis (1984), Dugan v. Jones (1980)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 Cohen v. Vivian · 5 Utah 2d 263 - Cole v. Parker
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"One of the fundamental tenets of the Anglo-American law of fraud is that fraud may be committed by the suppression of the truth ... as well as the suggestion of falsehood .... Silence, in order to be an actionable fraud, must relate to a material matter known to the party and which it is his legal duty to communicate to the other contracting party...."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'exists is determinable by reference to all the circumstances of the case.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.