Fulton v. . Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1969 · most notably Trustees of Amherst College v. Ritch (1897), King v. Remington (1886)
49 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The argument that the defendants benefited the sale by becoming bidders is one which might be used in every case where a trustee bids at a sale of property to which his trust-relates. It has been so often used and so often refuted that it is not necessary to consider it here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Archer v. Archer
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.