David v. Serges’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “"Ratification is the affirmance by a person of a prior act which did not bind him but which was done or professedly done on his account, whereby the act, as to some or all persons, is given effect as if originally authorized by him." "Affirmance is either "(a) a manifestation of an election by one on whose account an unauthorized act has been done to treat the act as authorized, or "(b) conduct by him justifiable only if there were such an election."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Echelon Homes, LLC v. Carter Lumber Co.

2. “[w]hen an agent purporting to act for his principal exceeds his actual or apparent authority, the act of the agent still may bind the principal if he ratifies it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Echelon Homes, LLC v. Carter Lumber Co.

3. “(a) a manifestation of an election by one on whose account an unauthorized act has been done to treat the act as authorized, or”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Echelon Homes, LLC v. Carter Lumber Co.