Dutton v. . Willner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 54 state decisions

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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ It is a well settled and salutary rule that ‘ a person who undertakes to act for another in any matter shall not, in the same matter, act for himself. ’ ... If the agent make a profit out of the transaction he is bound to account for it, though made without the knowledge or authority of the principal, and without risk or expense to him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Neis v. Farquharson

2. “to Prevent them, by removing from agents and trustees all inducement to attempt dealing for their own benefit in matters which they have undertaken for others, or to which their agency or trust relates.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Freeman v. Decio

3. ““It is a well settled and salutary rule that ‘a person who undertakes to act for another in any matter shall not, in the same matter, act for himself.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cogshall v. Jones