Fitz-Gerald v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 304 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 378 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Gaines v. Hamman (1962), Thigpen v. Locke (1962)
34 federal appellate · 304 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 White v. White · Lewis v. Davis · MacDonald v. Follett · Mills v. Gray · Stevens v. Karr
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 378 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o rules can be prescribed and no attempt should be made to formulate rules for the measurement of conduct by courts of equity”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'where one person trusts in and relies upon another, whether the relation is a moral, social, domestic, or merely personal one.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"An unfair transaction between a confider and a confidant or fiduciary, at least where the confidence is induced by a fiduciary relationship between the parties, gives rise to a constructive trust in respect of any unjust enrichment of the confidant or fiduciary. Where such a transaction is attacked, the burden of proof is on the confidant or fiduciary to establish the fairness of the transaction, and to this end he must fully disclose the facts and circumstances, and affirmatively show his good faith and the absence of pressure or influence on his part in the matter."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greener v. Greener · Bohn v. Bohn
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.