Downes v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Whatever may have been the private or confidential business relations between the plaintiffs and the sales agent, the defendant showed by competent evidence, amply sufficient to sustain the verdict and judgment, that the plaintiffs had established the sales agent in Hutchinson to sell tractors, and that they had held him out to defendant and to the general public in that community as their agent. Defendant was not apprised of any restriction placed by plaintiffs on the agent’s authority. It would utterly destroy the foundations of all business confidence between- dealers and customers to countenance a claim like the one set up in this case. . . . “By rights this case should be disposed of in a per curiam opinion, for no shadow of error appears in the record, nor is anything presented which is worthy of comment.” (p. 798.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Missouri Finance Corp. v. McCowan