Gorham v. Gorham’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Leader Publishing Co. v. Grant Trust & Savings Co. (1915), Doe v. Howe Military School (2000)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Conant v. National State Bank · Cotterell v. Koon · Stroup v. Stroup · Cicero Township v. Picken · Jackson v. Myers
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any breach of a duty arising from a confidential or fiduciary relation, whereby the party at fault without any actual fraudulent intent gains an advantage at the expense of any one to whom he owes such duty, amounts to a constructive fraud.”
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.