13 Wash. App. 171 - Taylor v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1999
3 federal appellate · 13 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 60 Wash. 2d 623 - Lamb v. General Associates, Inc. · 73 Wash. 2d 225 - Mersky v. Multiple Listing Bureau of Olympia, Inc. · 38 Wash. 2d 485 - Larson v. Bear · 38 Wash. 2d 856 - Largent v. Ritchey · 50 Wash. 2d 256 - Brink v. Martin
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Facts and circumstances are sufficient to establish apparent authority only when a person exercising ordinary prudence, acting in good faith and conversant with business practices and customs, would be misled thereby, and such person has given due regard to such other circumstances as would cause a person of ordinary prudence to make further inquiry.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the principal knowingly permits the agent to perform certain acts, or where he holds him out as possessing certain authority”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`apparent' in contemplation of law, merely because it looks so to the person with whom [the agent] deals”
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.