Allen v. Moushegian’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Naukeag Inn, Inc. v. Rideout (1966), Gishen v. Dura Corp. (1972)
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 27 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 Birnbaum v. Pamoukis · Trade Mutual Liability Insurance v. Peters · Hawkes v. Lackey · Reed v. A. E. Little Co. · Akin v. Warner
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] release executed in favor of one standing in a fiduciary relation to the one executing the release will be subjected to the closest scrutiny by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“discharge a fiduciary's liability for breach of the trust imposed in him unless the person executing the release had knowledge of all relevant facts that the fiduciary knew or ought to have known.”
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.