Steinbrugge v. Haddock’s Empirical Analysis
281 F.2d 871 · 1960
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1997
12 federal appellate · 1 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 Doheny v. . Lacy · Derdyn v. Low · Vargas v. Esquire, Inc. · Farmers Nat. Grain Corporation v. Young · Lewis v. Schafer
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These findings, supported by the evidence, led the trial court to deny the claimed fiducial relationship between Steinbrugge [investor] and Kunsman [geologist], and to place upon Steinbrugge the heavy burden of proving fraud, which he clearly did not sustain.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“frequently arise out of trust and confidence consensually placed in the superior knowledge, skill, or judgment of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Scott
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.