Schnader v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
6 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Hoffman v. Stamper (2005), Gourdine v. Crews (2008)
6 district · 33 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 Robertson v. Parks · McAleer v. Horsey · Boulden v. Stilwell · Gittings v. Von Dorn · Cahill v. Applegarth
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Fraud may consist in a suppression of the truth as well as in the assertion of a falsehood. The concealment becomes a fraud where it is effected by misleading and deceptive talk, acts, or conduct, or is accompanied by misrepresentations, or where, in addition to a party’s silence, there is any statement, word, or act on his part, which tends affirmatively to the suppression of the truth, or to a covering up or disguising of the truth, or to a withdrawal or distraction of a party’s attention from the real facts. . . . ‘ There is a distinction between the suppression of a fact and mere silence. Where there is an obligation to speak [(as there was in this case)], a failure to speak will constitute the suppression of a fact; but where there is no obligation to speak, silence cannot be termed suppression,’. . . Schnader v. Brooks, 150 Md. 52, 57-58 , 132 A. 381 (1926) (citations omitted).”
2 later decisions 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.