Friar v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1934
1 federal appellate · 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 Rice v. Wood · Scribner v. Collar · Leathers v. Canfield · Montross v. Eddy · Orton v. Scofield
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rules of law applicable to this class of cases are briefly stated: “(1) An agent to sell may not become the agent of the purchaser, nor may an agent to buy become the agent of the seller, unless the principals are duly acquainted with the fact that the agent is acting in such dual capacity. Mechem, Ag. § 943; Scribner v. Collar, 40 Mich. 375 ( 29 Am. St. Rep. 541 ) ; Leathers v. Canfield, 117 Mich. 277 [ 75 N. W. 612 , 45 L. R. A. 33]. “ (2) If, however, both principals, with full knowledge, consent that the agent act on behalf of both, the agreement for compensation is binding. See cases cited above.””
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.