Meyer v. . Redmond’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 1987 · most notably Cti-Container Leasing Corporation v. Oceanic Operations Corporation (1982), Thomas Gordon Malting Co. v. Bartels Brewing Co. (1912)
3 federal appellate · 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMeyer v. Redmond
Relationships
Relies on Argersinger v. . MacNaughton · Baltzen v. . Nicolay · De Remer v. . Brown · Mills v. Hunt · Meriden National Bank v. Gallaudet
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even where (the agent) discloses the name of his principal, if he signs a written contract in his own name merely, which contract does not upon its face show that he was acting as the agent of another, ... he will be personally bound thereby.”
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.