Stone v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 224 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 278 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Leichtamer v. American Motors Corp. (1981), 96 Ohio App. 3d 731 - Peck v. Peck (1994)
11 federal appellate · 224 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 Posin v. A. B. C. Motor Court Hotel, Inc. · Cooper v. Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Inc. · In re Termination of Employment of Pratt · Umbaugh Pole Building Co. v. Scott · In re Adoption of Schoeppner
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 278 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A 'fiduciary relationship' is one in which special confidence and trust is reposed in the integrity and fidelity of another and there is a resulting position of superiority or influence, acquired by virtue of this special trust.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] fiduciary relationship need not be created by contract; it may arise out of an informal relationship where both parties understand that a special trust or confidence has been reposed.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““In Umbaugh Pole Bldg. Co. v. Scott (1979), 58 Ohio St.2d 282 [ 12 O.O.3d 279 , 390 N.E.2d 320 ], we recognized that, in most instances, the relationship of a creditor to his debtor, governed by the principles of freedom of contract, was not a fiduciary relationship. There, we held that evidence which revealed that the creditor had given advice to the debtor concerning the operation of the debtor’s business was insufficient to transform what was otherwise a business relationship into a fiduciary relationship. In so holding, we conclude that, in the matter upon which the advice there was rendered, the parties were operating at arm’s length, each seeking to protect his own legitimate business interests.” Id.”
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.