Pierce v. Shippee’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1950
4 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 Matteson v. Kellogg
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We perceive no element in the transaction which would make it a fiduciary debt. . . . Here was a limited partnership created, where the parties to the contract were to share in the profits and losses of the -enterprise. The defendants were not trustees of the plaintiff, nor does the transaction disclose any relation -of trustee and cestui que trust. ... So far as the evidence shows, the only default of the defendants arises from the fact that they failed to pay over to the plaintiff one-half of the money he advanced with which the parties engaged in the speculation. This default is not a breach of trust, it is a mere breach of contract; and should this undertaking be held to be a fiduciary obligation within the meaning of the act, upon the same principle almost every legal or equitable obligation of a debtor would have to be included within the same list.” (pp. '375, 376.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Inge v. Stillwell
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.