Sinnard v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Tralon Corp. v. Cedarapids, Inc. (1997), Schaller Telephone Company v. Golden Sky Systems Inc (2002)
3 federal appellate · 8 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 Beeck v. Aquaslide 'N' Dive Corp. · Kurth v. Van Horn · Cornell v. Wunschel · FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN LENOX v. Brown · Hall v. Wright
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for concealment to be actionable, the representation must “relate to a material matter known to the party ... which it is his legal duty to communicate to the other contracting party whether the duty arises from a relation of trust, from confidence, from inequality of condition and knowledge, or other attendant circumstances.” Sinnard, 414 N.W.2d at 105 (quoting Wilden Clinic, Inc. v. City of Des Moines, 229 N.W.2d 286, 293 (Iowa 1975)).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is no specific test for determining when a duty to reveal arises in fraud cases. However, ... `[a] misrepresentation may occur when one with superior knowledge, dealing with inexperienced persons who rely on him or her, purposely suppresses the truth respecting a material fact involved in the transaction.'”
3 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.