Taylor v. Brindley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is our judgment that where two parties enter upon a joint venture with respect to acquisition and sale of real property, and they take the pains to specifically define and delimit the powers of each with reference to the sale and disposition of the property involved in the enterprise, they will be presumed to have delegated all the powers they intended to confer upon each other in respect thereto, and to have withheld any power or authority which they failed to affirmatively delegate. * * * The power and authority of an agent or trustee to convey title to the realty of his principal or beneficiary is not lightly conferred nor readily infer-able.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Allen v. Steinberg

2. “"It has been held or recognized that, as to third persons who deal with a joint adventurer in good faith and without knowledge of any limitation on his authority, the law presumes him to have been given power to bind his associates by such contracts as are reasonably necessary to carry on the business in which the joint adventurers are engaged, and that they become liable on such contracts, notwithstanding they may have expressly agreed amongst themselves that they should not be liaable."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Don's Heavy Hauling, Inc. v. Frank D. Malone Construction Co.