Ward v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 68 Cal. App. 3d 621 - Gonzales v. State of California (1977), Holmes v. Southern California Edison Co. (1947)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Cowdery v. London Etc. Bank · Razzo v. Varni · Cassin v. Cole
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant must account for the property received under the judgment which has been reversed, and the rule governing the extent of his liability is that applicable to a trustee, which [may be] stated as follows: "The general doctrine being that trustees ought to conduct the business of the trust on the same manner as an ordinarily prudent man of business would conduct his own, they will not be chargeable with more than they have received nor held responsible for losses that may arise, when they have acted in good faith and with common skill, prudence and diligence."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a judgment or decree of an inferior court is reversed by a final judgment on appeal, a party is in general entitled to restitution of all the things lost by reason of the judgment in the lower court; and, accordingly, the courts will, where justice requires it, place him as nearly as may be in the condition in which he stood previously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the expense properly incurred by them in conducting said business was more than $1,000 in excess of the amount received by them as the proceeds of the ranch and of the cattle.”
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.