Swallows v. Laney’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably State v. Chamberlain (1991), Klopp v. Wackenhut Corp. (1992)
5 federal appellate · 29 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 State v. Flores · State v. Martinez · Schrib v. Seidenberg · Iriart v. Johnson · Poorbaugh v. Mullen
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“holds a position of great trust and confidence and must act in utmost good faith”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] fiduciary relationship exists in all cases where there has been a special confidence reposed in one who in equity and good conscience is bound to act in good faith and with due regard to the interests of one reposing the confidence.”
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.