Horne v. Holley’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Hayes v. Muller (1963), Leonard v. Counts (1980)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 Meinhard v. Salmon · Selwyn Co. v. . Waller · Ferguson & Fries v. Gooch · Miller v. Ferguson · Maas v. Lonstorf
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that where one person sustains a fiduciary relation to another he can not acquire an interest in the subject matter of the relationship adverse to such other party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n agent is a fiduciary with respect to the matters within the scope of his agency”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.