Bryan v. Security Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably 11 Ill. App. 3d 841 - Wheeler v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1973), Robinson v. Kieren (1949)
23 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 Meinhard v. Salmon · 138 Ohio St. 293 - National City Bank v. Squire · Saeger Estates · First Nat. Bank of Birmingham v. Basham · 137 Ohio St. 26 - In Re Estate of Binder
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The object of a judgment against a trustee for breach of duty is not to penalize or punish him for a reprehensible act, but to make the plaintiff whole and place him in the position in which he would have been if the defendant had performed his duty, and not one in which he might have been if the trustee had carried out the trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]his duty is, in effect, that of uberrima fides, or utmost fidelity.”
1 later decision 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.