Duncan v. Barbour’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Virginia Real Estate Commission v. Bias (1983), Van Deusen v. Snead (1994)
30 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 Veasey v. Carson · Richeson v. Wilson · Mitchell v. Hughes · Snider v. New River Insurance & Realty Corp. · Lee v. Patillo
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . .it was the duty of the agent to disclose to his principal the vital differences in the terms and conditions of sale contemplated by the parties. This duty was not discharged by simply handing to the owner an unsigned contract and directing his attention to one specific change. It was his duty to inform his principal of all facts which might influence his principal in accepting or rejecting the offer.” 49 S.E.2d at 265 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The general rule is well settled that a broker must act with entire good faith towards his principal, and he is bound to disclose to his principal all facts within his knowledge which are or may be material to the matter in which he is employed, or which might influence the principal in his action, and, if he has failed to come up to this standard of duty, he cannot recover."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owen v. Shelton
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.