88 Wash. 2d 490 - Esmieu v. Schrag’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably 34 Wash. App. 179 - Department of Social & Health Services v. Moseley (1983), 99 Wash. 2d 394 - Allard v. Pacific National Bank (1983)
43 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 77 Wash. 2d 616 - Maynard Inv. Co., Inc. v. McCann · Wright v. Corbin · 16 Wash. 2d 497 - Monroe v. Winn · 47 Wash. 2d 699 - Sheldon v. Sheldon · 15 Wash. App. 260 - Esmieu v. Schrag
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“duty includes the responsibility to inform the beneficiaries fully of all facts which would aid them in protecting their interests. " Id. (emphasis added). After our decision in Esmieu , we noted in another case that the fiduciary duty we discussed in Esmieu was that of a "true fiduciary”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trustee owes the beneficiaries of the trust `the highest degree of good faith, care, loyalty and integrity.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Court believes it is imperative to obtain water for the land held in the Esmieu trust. This compelling need was probably the most important factor leading all interested parties to agree that the trust should be diversified.”
1 later decision 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.