confidential relations
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 69 U.S. 70 - Brooks v. Martin · 1863Most cited · 255 citing opinions
wherever confidence is reposed, and one party has it in his power, in a secret manner, for his own advantage, to sacrifice those interests which he is bound to protect, he will not be permitted to hold any such advantage
How often courts cite the case defining “confidential relations”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “confidential relations” — 255 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.