Tauber v. Jacobson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2014
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Meinhard v. Salmon · Boulevard Plaza Corp. v. Campbell · Abresch v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. · Standard Casualty Company v. Boyd · Luther v. Coal Operators Casualty Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“The trial court, however, has gone much further by holding in effect that in every subsequent year when Tauber exercised his renewal season ticket privileges, he was bound to treat two of the tickets as the property of the plaintiffs. This holding could be supported if the record showed that (a) in 1961, Tauber bought two of these tickets only because he was authorized by Racoosin to act as the latter’s agent, or (b) the parties entered into a contract committing Tauber always to offer one ticket to each of the plaintiffs at cost, or in the alternative to make permanent transfer of his subscription option to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davey v. King“[W]e would have no hesitation in holding that in any year in which Tauber called his friends and requested them to forward their share of the deposit if they wished to attend the games with him during the coming season, he thereby made himself their agent and was bound when the tickets were ultimately delivered to turn them over. Such holding would seem to follow from Tauber’s invi tation to the plaintiffs, described by one of them (Jacobson) as “asking me to do the same thing for a number of years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davey v. King“After reviewing the testimony in this record, however, we have difficulty in accepting the court’s reasoning. In view of the admittedly gratuitous character of Tauber’s commitment to his erstwhile football companions, the court’s holding to be supported must rest on some principle of promissory estoppel, reflected in the obligations imposed even upon voluntary and uncompensated agents, where the promisee relies to his detriment upon such persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davey v. King
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