Smith v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1991
23 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 Conro v. Port Henry Iron Co. · Hicks v. Hinde · Embree v. Norris & Keith · Wyman v. Gray
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is very clear from the authorities, that it is not indispensable, in order to bind the principal, that such a contract should be executed in the name, and as the act, of the principal. It will be sufficient, if, upon the whole instrument, it can be gathered, from the terms thereof, that the party describes himself and acts as agent, and intends thereby to bind the principal, and not to bind himself. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frambach v. Frank
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.