Persson v. Smart Inventions, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the employer liable when one of its directors fraudulently concealed 27 information during contract negotiations
• holding “[t]he rights and obligations of partnership cannot exist contemporaneously 5 || with the rights and obligations of shareholders in a corporation.”
• “The existence of a confidential relationship generating a fiduciary duty is a question of fact . . . .” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[A] private corporation is generally liable 14 under the doctrine of respondeat superior for torts of its agents or employees committed while they 15 are acting within the scope of their employment.”
• “We review first 15 the basic principles of fiduciary and confidential relations. … Both relationships give rise 16 to a fiduciary duty, that is, a duty to act with the utmost good faith for the benefit of the 17 other party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• City of Hope National Medical Center v. Genentech, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 2008-04-24· cited 216×
• OCM Principal Opportunities Fund, L.P. v. CIBC World Markets Corp.
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-12-05· cited 130×
• Oakland Raiders v. National Football League
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-07-28· cited 130×
• Mitchell v. United National Insurance
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-03-08· cited 57×
• Village Northridge Homeowners Assn. v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  California Supreme Court· 2010-08-30· cited 53×
• Markow v. Rosner
  California Court of Appeal· 2016-10-04· cited 50×
• Shum v. Intel Corp.
  Federal Circuit· 2010-12-22· cited 25×
• Eng v. Brown
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2018-03-22· cited 22×
• Gonzalez v. Lew
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2018-02-01· cited 10×
• Patriot Scientific Corp. v. Korodi
  S.D. California· 2007-05-25· cited 8×
• Kahn v. The Dewey Group
  California Court of Appeal· 2015-09-08· cited 3×
• Alliance Payment Systems, Inc. v. Walczer
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-06-25· cited 2×
• L-3 Communications Corp. v. OSI Systems, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2008-06-27· cited 2×
• DAVIS WINE COMPANY v. Vina Y Bodega Estampa, SA
  D. Oregon· 2011-10-13
• Village Northridge Homeowners Ass'n v. State Farm and Cas. Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-12-17
• Gonzalez v. Lew
  California Court of Appeal· 2018-02-01
• Eng v. Brown
  California Court of Appeal· 2018-03-22
• Siry Investment v. Farkhondehpour
  California Court of Appeal· 2020-03-03
• Siry Investment v. Farkhondehpour
  California Court of Appeal· 2020-03-23
• The Sonoma Land Trust v. Thompson
  California Court of Appeal· 2021-04-30

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-14· cited 2,447×
• Armendariz v. Found. Health Psychcare Servs., Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 2000-08-24· cited 1,269×
• Engalla v. Permanente Medical Group, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1997-06-30· cited 717×
• PLCM Group, Inc. v. Drexler
  California Supreme Court· 2000-06-02· cited 669×
• Santisas v. Goodin
  California Court of Appeal· 1998-02-26· cited 627×
• Rosenthal v. Great Western Financial Securities Corp.
  California Supreme Court· 1996-12-12· cited 513×
• Trope v. Katz
  California Supreme Court· 1995-10-02· cited 378×
• In Re Worlds Of Wonder Securities Litigation
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-09-15· cited 307×
• LiMandri v. Judkins
  California Court of Appeal· 1997-01-28· cited 302×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-11-17· cited 190×
• Gray v. Don Miller & Associates, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1984-01-30· cited 176×
• Vai v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n
  California Supreme Court· 1961-07-26· cited 145×
• Sime v. Malouf
  California Court of Appeal· 1949-12-14· cited 100×
• Barbara A. v. John G.
  California Court of Appeal· 1983-07-26· cited 93×
• Simmons v. California Institute of Technology
  California Supreme Court· 1949-09-16· cited 92×
• Wolf v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 2003-03-20· cited 89×
• Kley v. . Healy
  New York Court of Appeals· 1891-10-06· cited 82×
• Cicone v. URS Corp.
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-07-10· cited 80×
• Lolley v. Campbell
  California Supreme Court· 2002-09-25· cited 78×
• Service by Medallion, Inc. v. Clorox Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1996-05-06· cited 67×