Schweyer v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1939
4 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 Coldwater National Bank v. Buggie
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a simple contract is made by a duly authorized agent without disclosing his principal, and the other contracting party afterwards discovers that the person with whom he dealt was not the principal, he may abandon his right to look to the agent personally, and resort to the principal.””
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.