Fisher v. . Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Northeast General Corp. v. Wellington Advertising, Inc. (1993), Kley v. . Healy (1891)
5 federal appellate · 40 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 Ford v. . Harrington · Allerton v. . Allerton · Freelove v. Cole
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a confidence reposed which invests the person trusted with an advantage in treating with the person so confiding,”
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.