Elkins v. McCaskill’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
February 1929
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Funk v. Babbitt · Watt v. Kirby · Spinks v. Davis · McNair ex rel. White v. Platt · Wittram v. Wormer
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“’’Any agreement the tendency of which is to cause a breach of trust or duty on the part of one who stands in a fiduciary or confidential relation, is illegal and void (9 Cyc. 470) not necessarily because it is against public policy, but because it is, in effect, an agreement to wrong or defraud the person whose interest the fiduciary has in charge, 9 Cyc. 474.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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