Lyle v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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

1. ““As we have noted, there are times when the law imposes a duty upon a party to speak rather than to remain silent and thereby to disclose information to place the person with whom he is dealing on an equal footing with him. The failure to speak in such a case amounts to the suppression of a fact which should have been disclosed and constitutes fraud.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mends v. Dykstra

2. ““This fiduciary relationship between a broker and his client has been found to encompass a ‘duty of full disclosure’ by a number of courts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Watson v. Fultz