Sinclair v. . Purdy’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Page v. Clark (1979), In Re: Koreag, Controle Et Revision S.A. (1992)
10 federal appellate · 127 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Wood v. . Duff-Gordon · Trustees of Amherst College v. Ritch · Wood v. . Rabe · Marks v. . Cowdin · Matter of Jordan v. . Decorative 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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven if we were to accept her statement that there was no distinct promise to hold it for his benefit, the exaction of such a promise, in view of the relation, might well have seemed to be superfluous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jaffer v. Hirji“It is not the promise only, nor the breach only, but unjust enrichment under cover of the relation of confidence, which puts the court in motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[h]ere was a man transferring to his sister the only property he had in the world ... in reliance upon her honor”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jaffer v. Hirji
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.