Bennett v. . Judson’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably American Surety Co of New York v. Pauly (1898), Atlantic Cotton Mills v. Indian Orchard Mills (1888)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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.
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The complaint in setting forth the cause of action counts upon false representations made by the defendant, without any reference to the agent. This mode of stating the case, we think, was proper under any system of pleading. The same rule of law which imputes to the principal the fraud of the agent, and makes him answerable for the consequences, justifies the allegation in pleading that the principal himself committed the wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sudworth v. Morton
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.