Davis v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2007
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arkadelphia Milling Co. v. Campbell
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.
“It is frequently the case that agents enter into contracts with third parties without disclosing their principals; but, if authorized to act, their principals are bound by their agents’ contracts. This rule would be of little avail unless the name of the undisclosed principal could be shown by oral evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woody v. Dirani
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.