Henry v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
128 F. 243 · 1904
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2001
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Owings v. Hull · Bennecke v. Insurance Co. · Gouldy v. Metcalf · Reese v. Medlock · Holladay v. Daily
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.
““The power of attorney was the sole measure of the agents’ authority. It specified in detail the terms upon which appellant was willing to sell, and. whether wise or unwise, beneficial or prejudicial, they were the terms which appellant chose to name; and Trueheart & Co. and appellee were powerless to change them. It was appellant’s land. As the owner he had the right to specify the terms upon which he would sell his own property. No matter how absurd or unreasonable Ms terms might be, it was, in the very nature of things, his right as owner of the property to fix his own terms, and Lane had either to assent thereto or decline to buy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robertson v. Allen
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.