Davoue v. Fanning’s Empirical Analysis
1816
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1972 · most notably Quinn v. Phipps (1927), Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod (1846)
115 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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.
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Justice Benson makes a distinction to show that the rule thus laid down is not to be understood in absolute and unqualified sense. A trustee, it is said, is never to be assisted in this eourt by giving effect to such a purchase; but it does not follow that chancery is bound in every case, and of course, to annul such a purchase on the application of the cestui que trust. His words are that it is not in every instance indispensable that all the cestuis que trust should agree to waive the implied fraud. It may be sufficient for a majority, or such other number or proportion of them, to agree as to that, according to the circumstances of the case, it may be presumed there was no fraud in fact.””
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.