44 N.C. App. 707 - Brickell v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2014
10 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 Ragsdale v. Kennedy · Johnson v. Owens · Griffin v. Wheeler-Leonard & Co., Inc. · Hartley v. Ballou · Setzer v. OLD REPUBLIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ilence, in order to be an actionable fraud, must relate to a material matter known to the party and which it is his legal duty to communicate to the other ... party, whether the duty arises from a relation of trust, from confidence, inequality of condition and knowledge, or other attendant circumstances____ [T]he silence must, under the conditions existing, amount to fraud, because it amounts to an affirmation that a state of things exists which does not, and the uninformed party is deprived to the same extent that he would have been by positive assertion.”
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.