Roberts v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 1990 · most notably Johnson v. Shenandoah Life Insurance Company (1973), Alabama Mills, Inc. v. Smith (1939)
72 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 Syndicate Insurance v. Catchings · Robinson & Co. v. Greene · Capital Security Co. v. Owen · Miller-Brent Lumber Co. v. Stewart · Gibson v. Snow Hardware 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the evidence shows that the actor has been held out by the alleged principal, as being his agent or as possessing the authority assumed by such agent within the scope of the principal’s business, the doctrine of apparent authority can be invoked by one who has been misled to his detriment. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the fact of agency rests in parol, or it is to be inferred from the conduct of the principal, and there be evidence tending to show the agency, the acts or declarations of the agent are admissible in evidence, and the jury must determine the fact of agency vel non.”
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.