Gridley v. Tilson’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 1965 · most notably George v. Bekins Van & Storage Co. (1949), 27 Cal. 2d 349 - Herzog v. Capital Co. (1945)
7 federal appellate · 51 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 Northern Assurance Company of London v. Grand View Building Association · Domenigoni v. Imperial Live Stock & Mortgage Co. · Fid. & Cas. Co. of N.Y. v. Fresno Flume & Irrigation Co. · Schuster v. North American Hotel Co. · 36 Cal. App. 312 - Munn v. Earle C. Anthony, Inc.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A well-settled exception, however, is the case where the party seeking to rely on fraudulent representations of an agent had notice of the limitation on the agent's authority to make representations. Therefore a principal is bound only by the representations embodied in the written contract where a provision in the contract notified the prospective purchaser that the agent's authority went no further (citing cases).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Speck v. Wylie
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.