Scott v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2000
7 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 Wasco Co. v. New England Equitable Ins. · Rinehart & Dennis Co. v. McArthur · Sweeney v. Jackson County · McDaniel v. Maxwell · Norton v. Whitehead
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Attorneys in fact created by formal letters of attorney are merely special kinds of agents * * * and in construing such letters or powers and determining their effect the principles of the law of agency apply.”
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.