Blodgett v. Martsch’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 103 Wash. 2d 383 - Cox v. Helenius (1985), In Re Curtis (1984)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 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 Spruill v. Ballard · W. A. H. Church, Inc. v. Holmes · Spires v. Edgar · Vogt v. Town & Country Realty of Lincoln, Inc. · Feldman v. Rucker
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are a few relationships (such as parent-child, attorney-client, trustee-cestui) which the law presumes to be confidential.” Id. As set forth in the court’s discussion of the claim for breach of fiduciary duty, infra pages 894-895, under Utah law, a stock salesperson over a non-discretionary account is not a fiduciary. Therefore, Nelson owed no fiduciary duty to Plaintiffs. 19 . Utah courts have discussed the nature of the relationship between a real estate agent and a potential buyer:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(tlhe duty of the trustee under a trust deed is greater than the mere obligation to sell the pledged property in accordance with the default provision of the trust deed instrument, it is a duty to treat the trustor fairly and in accordance with a high punctilio of honor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'to act with reasonable diligence and good faith on [the trustor's] behalf consistent with [the trustee's] primary obligation to assure payment of the secured debt.'”
2 later decisions 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.