Barbre v. Goodale’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably Alvord v. Banfield (1917), Northwestern Clearance Co. v. Jennings (1922)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 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 Briggs v. . Partridge · Stowell v. Eldred · Nicoll v. . Burke · Chandler v. Coe · Hunter v. Giddings
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question is here presented whether it is competent to show by parol testimony that a contract executed by and in the name of an agent is the contract of the principal, where the principal was known to the other contracting party at the date of its execution. ’ ’ ¡ ; ' '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘‘This doctrine must be limited to simple contracts, and may not be extended to negotiable instruments and specialties under seal, as they constitute an exception to tlie rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The principal may have recourse to the same doctrine to bind the party thus entering into contract with his agent."”
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.