Kerns v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2008
4 federal appellate · 17 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 Kerns v. Lewis · Bruce v. United Railways Co. · Haines v. Leonard Warehouses, Inc. · Emery v. Ford
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Implied authority is to be gathered from facts and circumstances, and is usually a question for the jury. When one invests another with general authority and discretion, and it is exercised in the due course and furtherance of the principal’s business, the latter is not relieved from the consequences of a mistake of judgment of the agent, either as to the extent of his authority or the manner of exercising it, .as against third persons, nor is the authority to be limited to the principal’s unexpressed intention. The question was for the jury.””
1 later decision 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.