Trott v. Hild’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2017
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 Yentis v. Mills · Beato v. DiPilato · 167 Pa. Super. 568 - Brunetto v. Ferrara · 177 Pa. Super. 16 - Matteo v. Bofoni
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Under] the law of agency, where an agent has received moneys belonging to a disclosed principal, the agent is not under a duty to return the same to the other party to the transaction if the cause for recision arises after their receipt.”
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.