Holmes v. McKey’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2018
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Collins v. Heitman · Griffith v. Scott · Cobb v. Wm. Kenefick Co. · Progressive Iron Works Realty Corp. v. Eastern Milling Co. · Keeling v. Travelers Ins. Co. of Hartford
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In accordance with principles of utmost loyalty and good faith, an agent authorized to sell or lease his principal’s property must in so doing act solely for his principal’s interests; and, since there will exist an inducement to act adversely to his principal’s interest if the agent is involved as purchaser or lessee while making the sale or lease, such an agent must, as a general rule, sell or lease only to a third person and must not, without the full knowledge or consent of his principal, himself become the purchaser or lessee either directly or through the agency of a third person. Accordingly, without his principal’s knowledge and consent, he must not become a partner or otherwise jointly interested in purchasing the property.” (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Facts of trifling importance when considered separately, or slight circumstances trivial and inconclusive in themselves, may afford clear evidence of fraud when considered in connection with each other. It has been said that in most cases fraud can be made out only by a concatenation of circumstances, many of which in themselves amount to very little, but in connection with others make a strong case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In a case of equitable cognizance, this court has always reserved the right and acknowledged the duty to set aside the judgment of the trial court when it appears from the record that the conclusions reached by the trial court are clearly against the weight of the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shepherd v. Lyle
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.