Taylor v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably Tandy Corp. v. Bone (1984), Hames v. Cravens (1998)
4 district · 24 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 Raines v. Toney · Red Bud Realty Co. v. South · Thrifty Rent-A-Car v. Jeffrey · Green v. Harrington
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law imposes a high standard of conduct upon an officer or director of a corporation, predicated upon the fact that he had voluntarily accepted a position of trust and has assumed control of the property of others____ Such a person occupies a fiduciary relation to the corporation and may not acquire, in opposition to the corporation, property in which the corporation has an interest or which is essential to its existence. Certainly, the president of a corporation owes a duty not to do an unfair or fraudulent contract which will result in his private gain at the expense of the corporation— Such an act would be a breach of the fiduciary capacity of the president. (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Mangum
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.