Brown v. Brown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• In cases of confidential relationship, silence when one should speak, or failure to disclose what ought to be disclosed, is “as much a fraud in law as an actual affirmative false representation.”
• “Where a person sustains towards others a relation of trust and confidence, his silence when he should speak, or his failure to disclose what he ought to disclose, is as much a fraud in law as an actual affirmative false representation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

41 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn, P.C. v. Frame
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-14· cited 70×
• Stephen W. Brown Radiology Associates v. Gowers
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-02-04· cited 51×
• Fulton County Adm'r v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-11-24· cited 38×
• Sutlive v. Hackney
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-11-23· cited 33×
• Leagan v. Levine
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-04-14· cited 30×
• Perkins v. First National Bank
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-05-31· cited 29×
• Harrison v. Harrison
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1958-09-05· cited 27×
• Wade v. Thomasville Orthopedic Clinic, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-07-01· cited 26×
• Goldston v. Bank of America Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-14· cited 24×
• Grant v. Fourth Nat. Bank of Columbus
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-11-30· cited 24×
• Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. Sun Life Insurance Co. of America
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-03-07· cited 23×
• Tigner v. Shearson-Lehman Hutton, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 23×
• Nash v. National Preferred Life Insurance
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-03-14· cited 18×
• Piedmont Pharmacy, Inc. v. Patmore
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-10-11· cited 18×
• Georgia Power Co. v. Womble
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-05-14· cited 18×
• Baxter v. Young
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1959-02-17· cited 17×
• Lorentzson v. Rowell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-06-25· cited 16×
• Johnson v. Gamwell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-02-14· cited 16×
• Waldrop v. Bettis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1967-10-20· cited 15×
• Lynch v. Waters
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-11-05· cited 15×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Morris v. Johnstone
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1931-04-16· cited 54×
• Equitable Building & Loan Ass'n v. Brady
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1930-12-11· cited 39×
• Kirkley v. Sharp
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1896-05-23· cited 36×
• Stonecypher v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1925-12-17· cited 28×
• Bowers v. Dolan
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-02-23· cited 25×
• O'Neal v. O'Neal
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1933-02-17· cited 22×
• Murray County v. Pickering
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1943-05-07· cited 20×
• Stover v. Atlantic Ice & Coal Corp.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1922-09-20· cited 20×
• Hickson v. Bryan
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1885-11-17· cited 18×
• Cowart v. Young
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1885-02-24· cited 14×
• George v. Bullard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1934-02-24· cited 7×