Riedell v. Stuart’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2009
3 federal appellate · 9 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 Taylor v. Mayo · Schumann-Heink v. Folsom · Austin v. Parker · Bradner Smith & Co. v. Williams · Hall v. Jameson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A trustee is not an agent. An agent represents and acts for his principal .... A trustee may be defined generally as a person in whom some estate interest or power in or affecting property is vested for the benefit of another. When an agent contracts in the name of his principal, the principal contracts, and is bound, but the agent is not. When a trustee contracts as such, unless he is bound, no one is bound, for he has no principal. The trust estate cannot promise; the contract is therefore the personal undertaking of the trustee.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mertz v. Owen · Clark v. Clark
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.