F.G. v. MacDonell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 814 So. 2d 347 - Malicki v. Doe (2002), Westbrook v. Penley (2007)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Wisconsin v. Yoder · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Bouknight · United States v. Ballard
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he essence of a fiduciary relationship is that one party places trust and confidence in another who is in a dominant or superior position.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exact limits of ... term ‘fiduciary relation’ ... impossible of statement”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such a claim requires definition of the relevant standard of care. Defining that standard could embroil courts in establishing the training, skill, and standards applicable for members of the clergy in a diversity of religions with widely varying beliefs. Furthermore, defining such a standard would require courts to identify the beliefs and practices of the relevant religion and then to determine whether the clergyman had acted in accordance with them.”
2 later decisions 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.