Tyler v. Sanborn’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 1977 · most notably 106 Cal. App. 2d 92 - Adams v. Herman (1951), Holman v. Ryon (1932)
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 36 N.J. Eq. 174 - Porter v. Woodruff · Ruckman v. Bergholz · Coat v. Coat
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An agent can not, either directly or indirectly, have an - interest in the sale of the property of his principal which is within the scope' of his agency, without the consent of his principal, freely given, after full knowledge of every matter known to the agent which might affect the principal.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Treat v. Schmidt · Hay v. Long
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.