Peyton v. William C. Peyton Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Braden v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2009), New York Trust Co. v. Riley (1940)
1 federal appellate · 90 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Pimpinello v. Swift & Co. · Slack v. Rees · Hall v. Otterson · Brown v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co. · Peyton v. Wehrhane
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Confidential relations are presumed to exist between husband and wife. . Confidential and fiduciary relations have the same meaning in law; and as every fiduciary relation implies a condition of superiority of one of the parties over the other, equity raises a presumption against the validity of a transaction by which the superior obtains a possible benefit at the expense of the inferior, and casts upon him the burden of showing affirmatively his compliance with all equitable requisites.” Peyton v. William C. Peyton Corp., 2 Del.Ch. 321 , 7 A.2d 737, 747 , 123 A.L.R. 1482 (1939).”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial injury to her property interests”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Howett
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.