Phelan v. Middle States Oil Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
210 F.2d 360 · 1954
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2024
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 5
Relies on Distilled Spirits · 1 E.H. Smith 411 - Higgins v. . Crouse · Crites, Inc. v. Prudential Insurance · Title Guarantee Trust Co. v. . Pam. · Phelan v. Middle States Oil Corp.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A principal is not charged with his agent’s knowledge obtained before he became an agent (or before he acted in the transaction), unless the information was in the agent’s mind when he acted for the principal on the occasion under scrutiny.” Phelan v. Middle States Oil Corp., 210 F.2d 360, 365-66 (2d Cir. 1954); see also The Distilled Spirits, 78 U.S. [11 Wall.] 356, 366-67, 20 L.Ed. 167 (1870).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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