Munn v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2021
8 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 Guin v. Ha · Zeman v. Lufthansa German Airlines · Municipality of Anchorage v. Gentile · Wren v. State · Evans v. Evans
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exists when one imposes a special confidence in another, so that the latter, in equity and good conscience, is bound to act in good faith and with due regard to the interests of the one imposing the confidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We exercise our independent judgment in reviewing questions of law, such as whether a cost-plus contract creates a fiduciary relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Baker“Fiduciary relationships are generally defined by a level of trust beyond that in ordinary business relationships,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Baker
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.