Donovan v. Aeolian Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Brass v. American Film Technologies, Inc. (1993), Frigitemp Corp. v. Financial Dynamics Fund, Inc. (1975)
6 federal appellate · 17 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 Grieb v. Cole · Fox v. Boldt · Ketterer v. Bay View Nash Co.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where failure to disclose a material fact is calculated to induce a false belief, the distinction between concealment and affirmative misrepresentation is tenuous. Both are fraudulent. In this case it is clear that the defendant’s salesman was under a duty to inform the plaintiff that the piano ... was not a new piano.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * is acting upon a mistaken belief as to a material fact”
1 later decision 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.