Charlotte Taylor v. James Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
49 U.S. 183 · 1850
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1998 · most notably Hammond v. Hopkins (1892), Towson v. Moore (1899)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hugh Wallace v. Mary Wormley · Davoue v. Fanning · The Bank of the United States v. James Daniel et al. · Jenkins v. Pye · Mooers v. White
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If confidence is reposed, it must, be faithfully acted upon, and preserved from any intermixture of imposition. If influence is acquired, it must be kept, free from the taint of selfish interests, and cunning, and overreaching bargains. If the irielms of personal control are given, they must be always restrained to purposes ol' good faith and personal good. Courts of equity will not, therefore, arrest or set aside an act or contract, merely because a man of more honor would not have entered into it. There must be some relation between the parties which compels the one to make a full discovery to the other, or to abstain from all selfish projects. But, when such a relation does exist, courts of equity, acting upon this superinduced ground, in aid of general morals, will not suffer one party, standing in a situation of which he can avail himself against the other, to derive advantage from that circumstance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The natural and just influence which a parent has over a child renders it peculiarly important for courts of justice to watch over and protect the interests of the latter; and theréfore all contracts and conveyances, whereby benefits are secured by children to their parents, are objects of jealousy,' and if they are not entered into with scrupulous good faith, and are not reasonable under the’ circumstances, they will be set aside, unless third persons have acquired an interest under them; especially where the original purposes for which they have been obtained are perverted, or used as a mere cover. But we are not to indulge undue suspicions of jealousy, or to . make unfavorable presumptions as a '.natter of course in cases of this sort.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Towson v. Moore“not the production of an inexperienced girl, but of a far more practised and deliberate author.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Towson v. Moore
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.