Pentz v. Stanton’s Empirical Analysis
1833
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1930 · most notably Despatch Line of Packets v. Bellamy Man. Co. (1841), Casco National Bank of Portland v. Clark (1893)
42 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.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not sufficient to charge the principal, or protect the agent from personal responsibility, merely to describe himself as agent, if the language of the instrument imports a personal contract on his part.” (Pents vs. Staunton, 10 Wend. 277 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.