Delafield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1841
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1949 · most notably Village of Fort Edward v. . Fish (1898), Dyer v. Duffy (1894)
42 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a universal rule that, in order to bind the principal upon a contract made by an agent, the contract must be within the authority committed to that agent, and that the authority must be strictly followed. If the agent’s acts vary substantially from his authority in nature or extent or degree, they are void as to the principal, and do not bind him.””
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.