Farr v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Mallis v. Bankers Trust Co. (1983), Allen v. Nissley (1981)
27 federal appellate · 17 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 Innerarity v. Merchants' National Bank · Williamson v. . Brown · Allen v. South Boston Railroad · Phelan v. . Brady · Hodge v. . Sloan
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well-settled that the principal is bound by notice to or knowledge of his agent in all matters within the scope of his agency although in fact the information may never actually have been communicated to the principal.”
3 later decisions 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.