Vail v. Vail’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Ragsdale v. Kennedy (1974), Forbis v. Neal (2007)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 150 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 Abbitt v. . Gregory · McNeill v. . McNeill · Holt v. Holt · Furst v. . Merritt · Ward v. Heath
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [A] false representation or concealment of a material fact; (2) reasonably calculated to deceive; (3) made with intent to deceive; (4) and which does, in fact, deceive; (5) to the hurt of the injured party.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is generally held that when it appears that by reason of the confidence reposed the confiding party is actually deterred from sooner suspecting or discovering the fraud, he `is under no duty to make inquiry until something occurs to excite his suspicions. '”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a duty to disclose all material facts[,]”
4 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.