Dennis v. Thomson’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Kentucky Electric Development Company's Receiver v. Head (1934), Rivermont Inn, Inc. v. Bass Hotels Resorts, Inc. (2003)
8 federal appellate · 42 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 Chatham Furnace Co. v. Moffatt · Clinton Wiser v. John Lawler · Hayward v. Lesson · Crescent Grocery Co. v. Vick · Downey v. . Finucane
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] duty to speak may arise from partial disclosure; the speaker being under the duty of saying nothing, or to tell the whole truth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A false impression may consist in a concealment of what is true as well as an assertion of what is false. Faris v. Lewis, 2 B.Mon. 375; Singleton's Adm'r v. Kennedy & Co., 9 B.Mon. 222; Crescent Grocery Co. v. Vick, supra [194 Ky. 727, 240 S.W. 388]; Weikel v. Sterns, 142 Ky. 513, 134 S. W. 908, 34 L.R.A. (N.S.) 1035; Eversole v. Chandler, 217 Ky. 148, 289 S. W. 215. The suppression of truth is as vicious and disasterous as a false representation. The motive is the same in either case, and the result should be the same, since it is the intention that constitutes the fraud. Ruffner v. Ridley, 81 Ky. 165; Hays v. Meyers, 139 Ky. , 444, 107 S. W. 287, 32 Ky.Law Rep. 832, 17 L.R. A. (N.S.) 284, 139 Am.St.Rep. 493; Taylor v. Bradshaw, 6 T.B.Mon. 145, 17 Am.Dec. 132.”
1 later decision 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.