Cleary v. Cleary’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Passatempo v. McMenimen (2012), Mayeux v. Winder (2005)
30 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 Tetrault v. Mahoney · Neill v. Brackett · 9 Mass. App. Ct. 412 - Markell v. Sidney B. Pfeifer Foundation, Inc. · Stetson v. French · Hawkes v. Lackey
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fiduciary who benefits in a transaction with the person for whom he is a fiduciary bears the burden of establishing that the transaction did not violate his obligations.”
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.