Sinclair v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 16 N.C. App. 740 - Anthony Tile & Marble Co. v. H. L. Coble Construction Co. (1972), 46 N.C. App. 309 - Burton v. Kenyon (1980)
22 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 Buffaloe v. . Barnes · Phillips v. Plastridge · Figuers v. Sherrell · Pomerantz v. Pomerantz · Payne v. Tobacco Trading Corp.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a fiduciary relationship with respect to property, subjecting the person by whom the property is held to equitable duties for the benefit of another person, which arises as a result of a manifestation of an intent to create it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is generally held that 'a promise to perform an act which such promisor is already bound to perform is insufficient consideration for a promise by the adverse party.'”
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.