Hamilton v. Hecht’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1994
6 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 City National Bank v. Goodloe-McClelland Commission Co. · 232 Mo. App. 1027 - Bennett v. Royal Union Mut. Life Ins. Co. · Sharp v. Knox · 229 Mo. App. 776 - Bost v. McFarland · Hefferman v. Boteler
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Authority to collect money when due does not in itself imply authority to collect money before it is due. To hold otherwise would be to give the agent power to alter the terms of the contract, and that the agent should not be allowed to do under constructive authority. Such authority should carry with it power to collect only at the time nominated in the instrument.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An agent’s authority to make collections for his principal will not be extended by implication so as to justify the collection by him of money before it is due, particularly a considerable time before the obligation matures....”
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.