21 Wash. 2d 217 - Dorsey v. Strand’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Rayonier, Incorporated v. F. Arnold Polson (1968), Monotype Corporation Plc v. International Typeface Corporation International Typeface Corporation (1994)
11 federal appellate · 11 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 Boston Ice Co. v. Potter · Scott v. J. F. Duthie & Co. · Hamilton v. C. L. Best Gas Traction Co. · Unterberg v. . Elder · Robbins v. Horgan
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hat the nature of the act to be done or the business to be transacted is such that the principal desires to have the benefit of the combined experience, judgment, discretion, or ability of all of the agents. Dorsey v. Strand, supra, at 223.”
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.