Miller v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1983
17 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 Lindholm v. Nelson · Saylor v. Crooker · City of Hutchinson v. Hutchinson · Quinton v. Kendall
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A fiduciary relation does not depend upon some technical relation created by, or defined in, law. It may exist under a variety of circumstances, and - does exist in 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 the one reposing the confidence.” (Syl. ¶ 3.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gray v. Gray · Staab v. Staab““The courts have consistently refused to give an exact definition to, or to fix definite boundaries of, that class of human relations which, by principles of common honesty, require fair dealing between the parties, and which is commonly known as fiduciary relations.” (p. 232.) (See supporting authorities cited.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Staab v. Staab
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.