Nation v. Clay’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1958
7 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.
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.
““Whatever the law of Missouri may be as to the power of a private corporation to act as agent for others, it is clear that defendants should not be permitted to contest the agency after they have received the benefits of the contract procured by the agent, and where full performance has been made by the other party. The acceptance of the benefits of the contract was really a ratification of the contract as made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Parmalee
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.