Robenson v. Yann’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2018
24 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 Hennessey v. Woolworth · Texas Co. v. Central Fuel Oil Co. · Hunt v. Smith · Dunscombe v. Amfot Oil Co. · Pepper v. Donnelly
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a payment properly made to an agent for a known principal, in pursuance of a valid authority, and without fraud, duress, or mistake, may not be recovered from the agent. The remedy, in the event recovery of the money becomes available, is against the principal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gossage v. Waddle“that any conduct or contract of an illegal, vicious, or immoral nature cannot be the basis of a legal or equitable proceeding....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.