Slifka v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.2d 467 · 1947
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 1983 · most notably Magnetic Engineering & Manufacturing Co. v. Dings Mfg. Co. (1950), United States v. Costello (1955)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Palmer v. Hoffman · United States v. Hutcheson · Van Beeck v. Sabine Towing Co. · United States v. Gooding · Gooch v. Oregon Short Line Railroad
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“See also Keifer & Keifer v. R. F. C., 306 U.S. 381 , 391 and note 4, 59 S.Ct. 516, 83 L.Ed. 784; U. S. v. Hutcheson, 312 U.S. 219 , 235, 61 S.Ct. 463, 85 L.Ed. 788; South & Central American Commercial Co. v. Panama R. Co., 237 N.Y. 287, 291, 142 N.E. 666; The Arizona v. Anelich, 298 U.S. 110 , 123, 56 S.Ct. 707, 80 L.Ed. 1075; Warner v. Goltra, 293 U.S. 155 , 157-159, 55 S.Ct. 46, 79 L.Ed. 254; Slifka v. Johnson, 2 Cir., 161 F.2d 467, 470; Stone, The Common Law in the United States, 50 Harv. Law Review 4, 13-14. 50 Affirmed. Notes: 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The broker was authorized to arrange for the settlements with the companies... . We hold that the evidence objected to was competent. ... [citations omitted] It would be strange to have a rule of agency binding a principal to unauthorized acts of an agent, when done within the apparent scope of his authority, and yet to adopt a rule of evidence which would exclude statements naturally made in the course of the agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed v. Hinderland
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.