Quinn v. Phipps’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 284 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 370 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Lehman Brothers v. Schein (1974), American National Bank of Jacksonville v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1983)
30 federal appellate · 284 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gregory v. Stetson · Davoue v. Fanning · Wood v. . Rabe · Gardner v. . Ogden · Thomas v. Whitney
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 370 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A constructive trust is one raised by equity in respect of property which has been acquired by fraud, or where, though acquired originally without fraud, it is against equity that it should be retained by him who holds it ... "[E]quity will raise a constructive trust and compel restoration, where one through actual fraud, abuse of confidence reposed and accepted, or through other questionable means gains something for himself which in equity and good conscience he should not be permitted to hold."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] fiduciary duty extends ‘to every possible case ... in which there is confidence reposed on one side and the resulting superiority and influence on the other.... The rule embraces both technical fiduciary relations and those informal relations which exist whenever one man trusts in and relies upon another.’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Stripped of all embellishing verbiage, it may be confidently asserted that every instance in which a confidential or fiduciary relation in fact is shown to exist will be interpreted as such. The relation and duties involved need not be legal; they may be moral, social, domestic or personal. If a relation of trust and confidence exists between the parties (that is to say, where confidence is reposed by one party and a trust accepted by the other, or where confidence has been acquired and abused), that is sufficient as a predicate for relief."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gammage v. Turner · Harris v. Zeuch
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.