Beach v. Wilton’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Quinn v. Phipps (1927), Winger v. Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. (1946)
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Roby v. Colehour · Mayrand v. Mayrand · Sears v. Vaughan · Tompkins v. Hollister · Mitchell v. McDougall
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts of equity have carefully refrained from defining the particular instances of fiduciary relations in such a manner that other and perhaps new cases might be excluded. It is settled by an overwhelming weight of authority that the principle extends to every possible case in which a fiduciary relation exists as a fact in which there is confidence reposed on one side, and the resulting superiority and influence on the other. The relation and the duties involved in it need not be legal; it may be moral, social, domestic or merely personal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newell v. Halloran
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.