Mitchell v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1975
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Quinn v. Phipps · Rice v. First Nat. Bank in Albuquerque · Harrop v. Cole · Wright v. Smith · Harrop v. Cole
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.
““A person in a fiduciary relation to another who purchases property for himself individually may be chargeable as constructive trustee of the property, even though he purchases it from a third person and not from himself as fiduciary. He is chargeable as a constructive trustee where he purchases for himself individually property which he should purchase for the beneficiary * Scott on Trusts, Sec. 499.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Allison
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.