Monahan v. McElligott’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1961
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 Lindley v. Keim · Bateman v. Riley · Wollenburg v. Rynar · 26 N.J. Eq. 223 - Reynolds v. O'Neil · Celendano v. Blazejewski
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.
“a signature for another to such an agreement, if done without antecedent authority, expressly or impliedly conferred, may be ratified by the person for whom the signature was made, and that such ratification would establish authority to make it as effectually as proof that such authority had been expressly conferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that such authority to sign an agreement for the sale of land could be established either by proof that it had been expressly conferred, or by proof of circumstances from which its grant may be reasonably inferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the intention of one party to convey and the other party to purchase.”
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.