Few v. Few’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2015
14 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 Bell, Probate Judge v. MacKey · Coulbourn v. Armstrong · Gordon v. Rothberg · Green v. Industrial Life & Health Ins. · Vaughan v. Langford
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the cases decided by this Court, the partners are treated as fiduciaries each to the other and characterizes their relationship as one of mutual trust and confidence, imposing upon them the usual trust requirements of loyalty, good faith and fair dealing. Whitman v. Bowden, 27 S.C. 53 , 2 S.E. 630 [1884]; Price v. Middleton, 75 S.C. 105 , 55 S.E. 156 [1906]; and Badder v. Saleeby, 131 S.C. 101 , 126 S.E. 438 [1924].”
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.