Adair v. . Brimmer’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1995 · most notably May v. Henderson (1925), Lamar v. Micou (1884)
1 federal appellate · 92 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The cestui que trust must * * * not only have been acquainted with the facts, but apprised of the law how these facts would be dealt with by a court of equity. All that is implied in the act of ratification when set up in equity by a trustee against his cestui que trust must be proved, and will not be assumed. The maxim, Tgnorantia legis excusat neminem,’ cannot be invoked in such a case. The cestui que trust must be shown to have been apprised of his legal rights,”—citing cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Howlett“made with a full knowledge of all the material particulars and circumstances,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Renz v. Beeman
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.