Daniel v. Tolon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 72 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While equity does not deny the possibility of valid transactions between parties, where a fiduciary relationship exists, yet because every such relation implies a condition of superiority' held by one of the parties over the other, in every transaction between them by which the superior party < btains possible benefit, equity raises a presumption against its validity, and easts upon (hat party the burden of proving affirmatively his compliance with equitable requisites, and of thereby overcoming the presumption.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Flowers v. Flowers

2. ““A husband is not bound to maintain his wife’s children by a former husband; but if he receives them into his family and supports them, it is presumed that he does so as a parent, and where such is the case, they are not liable to him for their support, nor he to them for their services.” (Emphasis ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wooden v. Hale

3. ““Every person who has actual notice of circumstances sufficient to put a prudent man upon inquiry as to a particular fact, and who omits to make such inquiry with reasonable diligence, is deemed to have constructive notice of the fact itself.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Galer Oil Co. v. Pryor