Boyd v. Eikenberry’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1999
20 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 Thompson v. Schmitt · Peoples Savings Bank v. Smith & Co. · National Citizens' Bank v. Ertz
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cannot agree that the defendant’s status was that of an agent, as defined by this Court in the case of Boyd v. Eikenberry, 132 Tex. 408 , 122 S.W.2d 1045, 1047 (1939): “‘[A]n agent is one who undertakes to transact some business, or to manage some affair for another, by the authority and on account of * * * it.’ ” ( 400 S.W.2d at 325 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““One who acts in my behalf, for my advantage, by my authority, is my agent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.