Eager v. Burrows’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a trustee engages in self-dealing if he place[s] himself in a position where it would be for his own benefit to violate his duty to the beneficiaries.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fisher v. Fisher · Rapela v. Green

2. “'although an agent's interests are often concurrent with those of the principal, the general fiduciary principle requires that the agent subordinate the agent's interests to those of the principal and place the principal's interests first as to matters connected with the agency relationship.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2011 UT App 213 - FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORP. v. Hanney

3. “When, as here, the moving party 'challenges an element of the nonmoving party's case on the basis that no genuine issue of material fact exists, the burden then shifts to the nonmoving party to present evidence that is sufficient to establish a genuine issue of material fact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2009 UT App 315 - Richards v. Brown