Varn v. Maloney’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Palermo (1987), Okland Oil Company v. Conoco Inc (1998)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Deardorf v. Rosenbusch · Ramsey v. Fowler · Johnson v. Eagle · Rucker v. Tietz
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is equally well settled that the concealment of material facts which one is bound under the cireumstances to disclose, may constitute fraud.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“After a careful consideration of the entire record before us, we are forced to the conclusion that Varn's unqualified statements that "We are working ... on a sandbar development that has already proven its merit" and that "Risk is minimal * * *" were false statements of material facts which, under the circumstances, amounted to fraud as defined above. We also conclude that his failure to mention the gas cap and the possible necessity of filling it with water before flood effect would occur, as indicated by the "experience record of Shell" which was common knowledge in the area and the failure to mention the unplugged wells in the immediate area which permitted loss of water and pressure, amounted to a concealment of material facts, which he was bound under the cireumstances to disclose....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A duty to speak may arise from partial disclosure, the speaker being under a duty to say nothing or to tell the whole truth. One conveying a false impression by the disclosure of some facts and the concealment of others is guilty of fraud, even though his statement is true as far as it goes, since such concealment is in effect a false representation that what is disclosed is the whole truth.”
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.