Kilby v. Pickurel’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2017
7 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 Winston v. Gordon · Swann v. Atlantic Life Insurance · Owens v. Boyd Land Co. · Dawson v. Hotchkiss · Bank of Occoquan, Inc. v. Davis
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A principal is bound by his agent's previously unauthorized act if he ratifies the act by accepting its benefits with full knowledge of the relevant facts, or, if upon learning of the act, he fails to promptly disavow it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Mountjoy“accepting its benefits with full knowledge of the relevant facts, or, if upon learning of the act, he fails promptly to disavow it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hager v. Gibson
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.