Terwilliger v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2013
10 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 Newman v. Sylvester · Stafford v. Nutt · Fitzgerald v. Genter · Murray v. Ebright
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.
“well recognized general rule, that where one person assumes to act as agent of another, but without authority to do so, he makes himself personally liable as a principal in the transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gill v. Pollert
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.