Clay v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably Wachovia Bank and Trust Company v. Johnston (1967), Bryan v. Security Trust Co. (1943)
25 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 Hindman v. O'Connor · Price's Adm'r v. Thompson · Frazier v. Jeakins · Andrews v. Hobson's Adm'r · Scholle v. . Scholle
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the same general principle governs all •persons occupying a fiducial character, yet there are two classes of cases controlled by ‘different special rules.’ The first class includes all those instances in which the fiduciary, and those with whom he stands in that relation, consciously and intentionally deal with each other, each knowingly taking a part in the transaction from which results a contract or conveyance. Here the contract is not necessarily voidable; it may be valid; but a presumption of its invalidity arises, and that so strong that nothing short of clear evidence of good faith, of full knowledge, of adequate consideration, and of independent thought, consent and action, can overcome it. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cornett v. Horn
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.