Powell v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Wilson v. Draper & Goldberg, P.L.L.C. (2006), Feldman v. Rucker (1959)
6 federal appellate · 14 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 Preston v. Johnson · Motley v. Hodges
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So jealously does a court of equity guard the rights of the unfortunate, that it is not necessary that actual fraud be made to appear, but it will seize upon any inequitable circumstance as a ground to afford relief, where, as in a case like this, property is sold for a price so inadequate 'as to shock the conscience of the chancellor.' "). Notwithstanding our longstanding jurisprudence on this matter, ALG Trustee insists that a trustee's duties under a deed of trust are limited to those expressly stated in the deed of trust. In taking this position, ALG Trustee asserts that the common law fiduciary duties previously recognized have been abrogated. ALG Trustee relies heavily on this Court's holding that "[t]he powers and duties of a trustee in a deed of trust, given to secure the payment of a debt, are limited and defined by the instrument under which he acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The only power remaining in the trustee [after the sale], so far as the purchaser is concerned, was to collect the purchase money and execute a proper deed....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is the agent of both debtor and creditor. It is incumbent upon him to act toward each with perfect fairness and impartiality .”
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.