Holman v. Ryon’s Empirical Analysis
56 F.2d 307 · 1932
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably Spruill v. Ballard (1932), National Life Insurance v. Silverman (1971)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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 Hammond v. Hopkins · Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod · Alexander Magruder v. Samuel a Drury · Jackson v. Smith · Dougherty v. Nevada Bank
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a wholesome doctrine, based upon reasons of public policy, that a [fiduciary] may not purchase or deal in [the] property [of the estate] for his own benefit or on his own behalf.... "So jealous is the law of dealings of this character by persons holding confidential relations to each other that the [beneficiary] may avoid the transaction, even though the sale was without fraud, the property sold for its full value, and no actual injury to his interests be proven...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for his own benefit or on his own behalf, directly or indirectly,”
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.