233 Mo. App. 43 - Selle v. Wrigley’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 1997 · most notably White v. Mulvania (1978), Decker-Ruhl Ford Sales, Inc. v. Ford Motor Credit Co. (1975)
6 federal appellate · 30 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 Bates v. Preble · Judd v. Walker · Vigus v. O'Bannon · Cottrill v. Krum · Nelson v. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may therefore be said that a confidential relation exists between two persons, whether their relations be such as are technically fiduciary or merely informal, whenever one trusts in and relies on the other. The question in such case is always whether or not trust is reposed.””
2 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.