Abbitt v. . Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Dalton v. Camp (2001), 147 N.C. App. 52 - Oberlin Capital, L.P. v. Slavin (2001)
2 federal appellate · 135 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.
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A fiduciary] relation may exist under a variety of circumstances; it exists in all cases where there has been a special confidence reposed in one who in equity and good conscience is bound to act in good faith and with due regard to the interests of the one reposing confidence. “It not only includes all legal relations, such as attorney and client, broker and principal, executor or administrator and heir, legatee or devisee, . . . trustee and cestui que trust, but it extends to any possible case in which a fiduciary relation exists in fact, and in which there is confidence reposed on one side, and resulting domination and influence on the other.””
8 later decisions 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.