Doney v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1975
9 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 Moffett v. Bozeman Canning Co. · Exchange State Bank v. Occident Elevator Co. · Birdwell v. Three Forks Portland Cement Co. · Springhorn v. Dirks · Gilmore v. Ostronich
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * the principal intentionally, or by want of ordinary care, causes a third person to believe another to be his agent who is not really employed by him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Ostensible authority is such as a principal, intentionally or by want of ordinary care, causes or allows a third person to believe the agent to possess.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * such authority as the principal actually or ostensibly confers upon him.””
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.