Taylor v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2012
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Addis v. Grange · Brownlie v. Brownlie
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A confidential relationship is one in which one person comes to rely on and trust another in his important affairs and the relations there involved are not necessarily legal, but may be moral, social, domestic or merely personal.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“What constitutes a confidential relationship between parties is a question of fact dependent upon the circumstances of each case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Locke v. Thigpen
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.