Glenn v. Macon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “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. (If a relation of trust and confidence exists between the parties— that is to say, where confidence is reposed by one party and a trust accepted by the other, or where confidence has been acquired and abused — that is suffi cient as a predicate for relief. The origin of the confidence is immaterial.).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cooper v. Gilder · 905 So. 2d 1213 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson v. Morrison