Sowers v. Pollock’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1954
2 district · 14 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 Frazier v. Jeakins · Proctor v. Dicklow · Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Freud · Webb v. Branner · Charles v. Witt
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No one having fiduciary duties to discharge should be allowed, to enter into any engagement in which he has, or can have, a personal interest conflicting, or which may possibly conflict, with the. inlerests of those whom he is bound to protect.” (p. 33.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.