Worobey v. Sibieth’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Dunham v. Dunham (1987), Alaimo v. Royer (1982)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 61 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 Foreman v. Foreman · Cowee v. . Cornell · Wood v. . Rabe · Goldsmith v. . Goldsmith · Ward v. Ward
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is no proof of an actual confidential relationship and the law looks only to a presumption of fraud arising out of the relationship of the parties to each other, that relationship must be one where there is ordinarily a special trust and confidence and the likelihood of the exercise of personal influence and control such that one would expect of the other fair dealing and mutual consideration.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Equity is much more prone to find such fraud in cases where property is bequeathed or devised to one upon his promise to deal with it in a certain way; Hanney v. Clark, 124 Conn. way; Hanney v. Clark [ 124 Conn. 140 , at page 145, 198 A. 577 , at page 579]; and that is illustrated by our cases of Dowd v. Tucker, 41 Conn. 197, 205 , and Buckingham v. Clark, 61 Conn. 204, 209 , 23 A. 1085 . See McLaughlin v. Thomas, 86 Conn. 252, 258 , 85 A. 370 . Apart from such situations, we have said that the basis of such trusts may be found in ‘fraud, misrepresentation, imposition, circumvention, artifice, or concealment, or abuse of confidential relations.’ Verzier v. Convard, 75 Conn. 1, 4 , 52 A. 255, 256 ; Reynolds v. Reynolds, [ 121 Conn. 153 at page 159, 183 A. 394 , at page 396].” Worobey v. Sibieth, supra, 136 Conn, at 356, 71 A.2d at 81 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It was a transaction between parent and child, a relation which, if not fiduciary in the strict sense, was nevertheless one ordinarily involving the greatest confidence on one side, and the greatest influence on the other.”
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.