Comstock v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Romero v. Mervyn's · Vickers v. North American Land Developments, Inc. · Chevron Oil Co. v. Sutton Ex Rel. Sutton · Douglass v. Mutual Ben. Health & Accident Ass'n · Echols v. NC Ribble Company
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The information received by the third person may come directly from the principal by letter or word of mouth, from authorized statements of the agent, from documents or other indicia of authority given by the principal to the agent....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I wish to emphasize that apparent authority must emanate from the conduct of the person to be charged as principal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]pparent authority arises from the principal's manifestations to third parties....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.