Wendt v. Fischer’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 6 district · 193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 291 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Meinhard v. Salmon (1928), Blau v. Lehman (1962)
40 federal appellate · 6 district · 193 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Munson v. Syracuse, Geneva & Corning Railroad · Murray v. . Beard · National Bank Loan Company of Watertown v. Moses Petrie · Hammond v. . Pennock · John Brownfield v. State of South Carolina
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 291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stops the inquiry when the relation is disclosed, and sets aside the transaction or refuses to enforce it, at the instance of the party whom the fiduciary undertook to represent, without undertaking to deal with the question of abstract justice in the particular case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If dual interests are to be served, the disclosure to be effective must lay bare the truth, without ambiguity or reservation, in all its stark significance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Only by this uncompromising rigidity has the rule of undivided loyalty been maintained against disintegrating erosion.”
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.