Alexander v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1964
19 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 Janes v. Citizens Bank · Keokuk Falls Improvement Co. v. Kingsland & Douglas Manufacturing Co. · Cole v. Kinch · Cockrell v. Martin · Nix v. Green
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the instrument contains or a person adds to his signature words indicating that he signs for or in behalf of a principal, or in a representative capacity, he is not liable on the instrument if he was duly authorized; but the mere addition of words describing him as an agent, or as filling a representative character, without disclosing his principal, does not exempt him from personal liability.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Milam
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.