Britton v. . Ferrin’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Hudson v. Yonkers Fruit Co. (1932), Filner v. Shapiro (1980)
7 federal appellate · 32 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 Whitehead v. . New York Life Ins. Co. · Murray v. . Beard · Mitchell v. . Reed · Baker v. New York National Exchange Bank · 5 Johns. Ch. 388 - Van Horne v. Fonda
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where one intrusts his property to another for a particular purpose, it is received in a fiduciary capacity; and, when turned into money, that is also received in the same capacity. It does not belong to the agent, and he can lawfully exercise no power or authority over it, except for the benefit of his principal, and only as authorized by him. If the agent uses it for his own purposes . . . it is a conversion of that which does not belong to him.” 63 N.E. at 956 .”
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.