Brown v. Dolese’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2019
9 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 Rosenthal v. Burry Biscuit Corp. · Bovay v. H. M. Byllesby & Co. · 13 Del. Ch. 384 - Lofland v. Cahall · Wright v. Scotton · Cahall v. Lofland
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendants having been charged with fraudulent concealment of the essential facts upon which plaintiffs propose to rely in order to establish their cause of action in a situation in which the principal actor, Roger, owed a heavy fiduciary duty to both of his sisters, statute of limitations or laches should not at this juncture be applied to bar recovery as Roger may in fact have been guilty of fraudulent breaches of trust resulting in his self-enrichment at the expense of the corporation, (citations omitted) in the light of the allegations of the complaint, statute of limitations ... as well as lach-es should be affirmatively pleaded, Rule 8(c), and established at trial.” 154 A.2d at 240 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] trust beneficiary may sue if the trustee refuses to sue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saunders v. MURATORI
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.