half truth
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 312 U.S. 410 - Equitable Life Insurance v. Halsey, Stuart & Co. · 1941Most cited · 81 citing opinions
A statement in a business transaction which, while stating the truth so far as it goes, the maker knows or believes to be materially misleading because of his failure to state qualifying matter is a fraudulent misrepresentation.
How often courts cite the case defining “half truth”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “half truth” — 81 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.