Cone v. Ragan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rule is well established, that it is not within the scope of an agent’s authority to bind his principal by admissions having reference to by-gone transactions. The only ground upon which the admissibility of an agent’s declaration can be justified, is, that they, must have been made while in the discharge of his duties as agent, and be so closely connected with the main transaction in issue as to constitute a part of the res gestae.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 383 So. 2d 529 - Davey Tree Expert Co. v. Willis