Foreman v. Pelican Stores’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1997
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Texana Oil & Refining Co. v. Belchic · Clement v. South Atlantic S. S. Line · Rosenberg v. Derbes · Denson v. Stewart · 22 La. Ann. 599 - Chinn v. Chinn
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An agent must account to his principal for whatever he has received, even unduly, by virtue of his procuration. An agent of a ship broker must restore to his principal all rebates or refunds received by him, in the absence of an express agreement to the contrary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A mandatary] is bound to restore to his principal whatever he has received by virtue of his procuration, even should he have received it unduly.”
2 later decisions 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.