Underwood v. Risman’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Aspinall v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc. (2004), 36 Mass. App. Ct. 73 - Greenery Rehabilitation Group, Inc. v. Antaramian (1994)
3 federal appellate · 16 district · 40 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 Slaney v. Westwood Auto, Inc. · Linthicum v. Archambault · International Fidelity Insurance v. Wilson · Heller v. Silverbranch Construction Corp. · Nei v. Burley
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an act or practice is a violation of M.G.L. c. 93A, § 2 if ... [a]ny person or other legal entity subject to this act fails to disclose to a buyer or prospective buyer any fact, the disclosure of which may have influenced the buyer or prospective buyer not to enter into the transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“failure to 'disclose to another a fact that [one] knows may justifiably induce the other to act or refrain from acting in a business transaction . . . [if one] is under a duty to the other to exercise reasonable care to disclose the matter in question.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is no liability for failing to disclose what a person does not know.”
2 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.