Potter v. Chaney’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably White v. Winchester Land Development Corp. (1979), Ping v. Beverly Enterprises, Inc. (2012)
1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Resnick v. Abner B. Cohen Advertising, Inc. · Taylor, Shelby & Co. v. Williams · 3 Ky. Op. 163 - Byrne v. Bourland
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.
“A principal is disclosed if "at the time of a transaction conducted by the agent, the other party thereto has notice that the agent is acting for a principal and of the principal's identity." See Restatement of the Law of Agency, Vol. 1, Sec. 4, p. 15; Resnick v. Abner B. Cohen Advertising, Inc. , D.C.Mun.App., 104 A.2d 254 [(1954)]. . . . The inquiry . . . boils down to whether appellants at the time of the agreement had such notice of the principal's existence and of its identity that they knew or would have reason to know or should have known appellee was not contracting as an individual. See Restatement of the Law of Agency, Vol. 1, Sec. 9, p. 28.”
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.