Traynham v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The fact that the note was not made in the name of the corporation, but in that of the trustees, will not exempt the corporation, provided the trustees acted within the sphere of their agency, and intended by their acts to bind the corporation. This the defendants proposed by their plea to establish. They allege their authority to execute notes for the corporation; that this note was given for debt due and owing by the said college; that the intent and purpose, by the execution of the note, was that the corporation should be bound to its payment; that the defendants had full power by said note to bind the corporation; and that they did not intend to render themselves liable, individually or collectively; and that all these facts were well known to the plaintiff. “The facts, if proved, would relieve the defendants from liability.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shelton v. Montoya Oil & Gas Co.

2. ““Whether the act be done in the name of the principal, or in the name of the agent acting for the principal, would seem, in reason, to .be quite immaterial. Let it be done as it may, it is the agent who performs the act. By his agency alone can it be done; and, if that agency appears, it should, in the nature of things, be sufficient to bind the principal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parrott v. Peacock Military College