Brown v. Hebb’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably O'HARA v. Kovens (1986), Mahan v. State Ex Rel. Carr (1937)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 37 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 Moulton v. Bowker · Kalus v. Bass · Loomis v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad · Meyer v. Frenkil · Richard J. Biggs & Co. v. Langhammer
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n attorney employed without reference to pending litigation is but an agent, and . . . his authority to bind his principal by his admissions is not affected by the fact that he is an attorney at law, except in so far as that fact may reflect upon the apparent scope of the agency. If the admission is clearly within the scope of his agency, express or implied, he has the same authority to bind his client as any other agent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.