Peak v. Ellicott’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 1979 · most notably McLeod v. Evans (1886), Shopert v. Indiana National Bank (1908)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 National Bank v. Insurance Co.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a trust fund is mixed with, other funds, the person equitably entitled thereto may follow it, and has a charge on the whole fund for the amount due.” (p. 161.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Wherever a fiduciary relationship exists, and money coming from the trust lies in the hands of the person standing in that relationship, it can be followed by the-principal' and separated from any money of the wrongdoer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sawyers v. Conner
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.