Myers v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Schrader v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1960), 586 So. 2d 884 - Sevigny v. NEW SOUTH FEDERAL SAV. & LOAN (1991)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Lauderdale v. Peace Baptist Church · Betts v. Ward · Livingston v. Livingston · Aday v. Echols · Hunt v. Jones
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An agent sustains a position of trust toward his principal and in all transactions affecting the subject of his agency, the law dictates that he must act in the utmost good faith and must make known to his principal each and all material facts within his knowledge which in any way affect the transaction and subject matter of his agency.— Lauderdale v. Peace Baptist Church, 246 Ala. 178 (9, 10), 19 So.2d 538 ; Dudley v. Colonial Lumber Co., 223 Ala. 533 , 137 So. 429 ; 3 C.J.S. Agency, § 138a, page 6.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"An agent sustains a position of trust toward his principal and in all transactions affecting the subject of his agency, the law dictates that he must act in the utmost good faith and must make known to his principal . . . all material facts within his knowledge which in any way affect the transaction and subject matter of his agency. "The law sedulously regards this principle and acts of an agent which tend to violate this fiduciary obligation are prima facie voidable, and are considered, in law, as `frauds upon confidence bestowed.'"”
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.