Birnbaum v. Birnbaum’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the defendant has made a profit through the violation of a duty to the plaintiff to whom he is in a fiduciary relation, he can be compelled to surrender the profit to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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