Lingenfelder v. Leschen’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1954
6 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 First National Bank v. Gay · Bless v. Jenkins · Bray & Brother v. Gunn · Roby v. Cossitt · Wright v. Baldwin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is perhaps no principle of law better established than that where an agent undertakes to bind a principal when he has no power to do so, he thereby renders himself personally responsible, and the fact that he in so doing may have acted in the utmost good faith and honesty believed that he had such power, makes no difference. [Smout v. Ilbery, 10 M. & W. 1; Wright v. Baldwin, 51 Mo. 269 ; Gestring v. Fisher, 46 Mo. App. 603 .] ””
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.