Scott Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Frowen v. Blank (1981), Basile v. H & R BLOCK, INC. (2001)
4 district · 51 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 Leedom v. Palmer · Furjanick Estate · Lochinger v. Hanlon · Thomas v. SEAMAN · Patterson v. Rossignol
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A business association may be the basis of a confidential relationship only if one party surrenders substantial control over some portion of his affairs to the other,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[pjhysical limitations imposed on a party to a transaction by disease and advancing age do not by themselves create a confidential relationship with another; such limitations support an inference of confidentiality only insofar as they may bear on a party’s capacity to understand the nature of the transaction in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“concept of a confidential relationship cannot be reduced to a catalogue of specific circumstances, invariably falling to the left or right of a definitional line.”
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.