Andress v. Condos’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2012
2 federal appellate · 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 Wilcox v. St. Mary's University of San Antonio, Inc. · Ruebeck v. Hunt · Courseview, Incorporated v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Courseview, Inc. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Bush v. Stone
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that fraud prevents the running of the statute of limitations until it is discovered, or by the exercise of reasonable diligence it should have been discovered. When there is a fiduciary relationship between the parties, however) diligence on the part of the defrauded party does not require as prompt or as searching an inquiry into the conduct of the other party as when the parties were strangers or were dealing at arm’s length. This is so because by entering into fiduciary relations the parties consent as a matter of law to have their conduct measured by standards of finer loyalty as exacted by equity courts. The fact that parties are fiduciary does not, however, change the rule that diligence is required in discovering the fraud. Rather, the fiduciary relationship is merely one of the circumstances to be considered in determining whether fraud might have been discovered by the exercise of reasonable diligence. Such a relationship is an evidentiary matter bearing on the issue of whether the defrauded party acted as would a person of ordinary prudence in discovering the fraud. The existence of a fiduciary relationship thus does not justify a party’s failure to take any precautions to protect against fraud. We hold, therefore, that the fact that the [parties] were involved in a fiduciary relationship did not as a matter of law toll the running of the ... statute of limitations until the fraud was actually discovered. Although the existence of the fiduciary r”
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.