Backus v. Cowley’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1945
7 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 Moore v. Township of Kenockee · Peters v. Cartier · Messenger v. Peter · Beakley v. Robert · Hoffman v. Auditor General
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The relations between Mrs. Backus and defendant company relative to this transaction have been called fiduciary. Strictly speaking, they were not, but were such as required loyalty on the part of the agent, and a duty resting upon it to deal in good faith with its principal, and is one of the relations within the statute and recognized by the authorities cited.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Bolt““It is also well settled in this State that ‘those who take by quitclaim deed are not bona fide purchasers, and take only the interest which their grantors had. ’ ’ ’”
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.