Powers v. Malach’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Too often and too recently this court has held that the relationship of husband and wife, with knowledge by her of his intention to make improvements on her property and failure on her part to object, does not make him her agent in making the improvements and does not amount to a holding out which creates an agency by estoppel. Twilley v. Bromley, 192 Md. 465, 470-472 , 64 A. 2d 553 ; Blenard v. Blenard, 185 Md. 548, 558 , 45 A. 2d 335 ; Adkins & Douglas Co. v. Webb, 160 Md. 571, 577 , 154 A. 259 ; Kvedera v. Mondravitzky, 145 Md. 260, 263 , 125 A. 591 . Emancipation of the wife from the husband’s common law dominion might be appreciably undone if he, as such, were made her general agent.” Id. at 113.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sullivan v. Mosner