Phillips v. Moeller’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Pacelli Bros. Transportation, Inc. v. Pacelli (1983), Cadle Co. v. D'Addario (2004)
2 district · 25 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 Meinhard v. Salmon · Conway v. Emeny · Carroll v. Arnold · McClure v. Middletown Trust Co. · Lyman v. Stevens
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"One of the most fundamental duties of the trustee is that he must display throughout the administration of the trust complete loyalty to the interests of the cestui que trust. He must exclude all selfish interest. . . . He must not put himself in a position where self-interest may conflict with his duties as trustee."”
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.