Gallagher v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Miga v. Jensen (2002), Hall v. Paine (1916)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Markham v. . Jaudon · Wright v. . Bank of the Metropolis · Baker v. . Drake · Gruman v. . Smith · Baker v. . Drake
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bound to follow the directions of his principal, or give notice that he declines to continue the agency. . . . . . . The plaintiff [broker] should have given prompt notice that he objected and declined to make the change. Telegraphic communication was used by the defendant, and no reason appears why the plaintiff could not have used *Page 306 the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To allow merely their value at the time of conversion would, in most cases, afford a very inadequate remedy; and in the case of a broker, holding the stocks of his principal, it would afford no remedy at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he hardship which arose from estimating the damages by the highest price up to the time of trial, which might be years after the transaction occurred....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miga v. Jensen
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.