Silver v. Silver’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 2002 Pa. Super. 347 - Etoll, Inc. v. Elias/Savion Advertising, Inc. (2002), Felmlee v. Lockett (1976)
2 federal appellate · 67 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 Sinclair v. . Purdy · Wood v. . Rabe · Metzger v. Metzger · Stewart v. HOOKS · McCloskey v. McCloskey
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although no precise formula has been devised to ascertain the existence of a confidential relationship, it has been said that such a relationship is not . confined to a particular association of parties, but exists whenever one occupies toward another such a position of advisor or counselor as reasonably to inspire confidence that he will act in good faith for the other’s interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not confined to particular association of parties but exists whenever one occupies toward another such a position of advisor or counselor as reasonably to inspire confidence that he will act in good faith for the other's interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is settled that where property is conveyed to one in a confidential relationship to the transferor, subject to a promise to reconvey which is subsequently breached, equity will intervene by imposing a constructive trust to prevent the unjust enrichment of one so abusing a confidential relationship. [Citations omitted. It is necessary that both a confidential relationship and reliance upon a promise to reconvey induced by that relationship be shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hockel v. Bennicoff
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.