Boehm v. Spreckels’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably 13 Cal. 2d 158 - Long Beach Drug Co. v. United Drug Co. (1939), 148 Cal. App. 4th 97 - Fremont Indemnity Co. v. Fremont General Corp. (2007)
3 federal appellate · 41 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 Hunt v. Rousmanier's Administrators · Pierce v. Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad · Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Co. v. Ewing · Frink v. Roe · Brown v. Crown Gold Milling Co.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact would appear to be that the papers were sold by Spreckels to the subscribers. That was the condition when the contract was made, and there is nothing in the contract to indicate that it was to effect a change in the relations between the publisher and the subscribers. The agreement of Spreckels is that he will ‘deliver’ to Shepherd [a former owner of the route], ‘a sufficient number of issues of said newspaper to supply said route’. In view of the fact that Spreckels had already agreed to sell and deliver the papers to the subscribers, this language cannot reasonably he construed to import a sale of the same copies to Shepherd. . . . “The more reasonable conclusion in view of all the facts, is that it is only a rather awkward expression of the idea that Shepherd was to have the right and duty, as agent of Spreckels, of delivering the papers, soliciting and taking new subscriptions thereto, and conducting the business incidental thereto within the territory described, including the collection of the price of the subscriptions owing to Spreckels. The statements that Shepherd was to receive the papers, distribute them within the territory, and ‘manage, conduct, and control said newspaper route in such manner and with such efficiency as shall be for the best interests’ of said newspaper, ‘and as shall maintain and preserve the extent and value of said newspaper route to the satisfaction of’ Spreckels, are apt expressions to describe the duties and powers of an agent. Th”
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.