Glenn v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016
11 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although one may covenant as trustee, he may limit and qualify the character in which he is to be held answerable; and where it plainly appears from the face of the instrument, that‘he did not mean to bind himself personally, courts will construe the covenant according to the plainly expressed intention of the parties, and this too, in cases where the covenantor had no right to bind himself in a fiduciary character. If the plaintiff he without remedy in such cases he has no one to blame but himself, in accepting a covenant of such a character. He certainly had no right to rely upon the individual liability of the covenantor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.