Safford v. McCaskill’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2001
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 Quinn v. Phipps · Willis v. Fowler · Smith v. Smith · Fisher v. Grady · Walker v. Landress
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court of equity will intervene to protect those standing in a confidential or fiduciary relation when the relation is established and such an influence has been abused. The doctrine is of wide application; it is extended to trustees, executors and administrators, directors of corporations, guardians, committees of lunatics, agents using moneys of principals, partnerships, husbands purchasing property with money belonging to the separate estate of their wives, parents and children, and all persons who stand in a fiduciary relation toward others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dietrich v. Winters
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.