Hawkins v. McGroarty’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1914
12 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 Despatch Line of Packets v. Bellamy Man. Co. · Palmer v. Williams · Pollard & Co. v. Gibbs · Ragan v. Chenault
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the statute as it now reads, requiring written authority for the contract which the agents mcJce, there can be no question, it would seem, that there was no such ratification here as could, by any process of reasoning, bind the defendant Maull to specifically perform the contract in question, which his agent Heimans had no written authority to make.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Fecht
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.