Lester v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1983
1 federal appellate · 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 Smith v. . Kidd · Joy v. Vance · Bromley v. Lathrop · Trowbridge v. Ross · Richards v. Waller
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As bas been seen, the law indulges in no bare presumptions that an agency exists; it must be proved or presumed from facts ; that the agent cannot establish his own authority, either by his representations or by assuming to exercise it; that an authority cannot be established by mere rumor or general reputation ; that even a general authority is not an unlimited one, and that every authority must find its ultimate source'in some act of the principal. Persons dealing with an assumed agent, therefore, whether the assumed agency be a general or a special one, are bound, at their peril, to ascertain not only the fact of the agency but the extent of the authority, and incase either is controverted, the burden of proof is upon them to establish it.” (Mech. Ag. § 276.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilcox v. Eadie
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.