38 Wash. 2d 485 - Larson v. Bear’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably Carrel v. Lux (1966), 56 Wash. App. 312 - Mauch v. Kissling (1989)
6 federal appellate · 20 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 McElwain v. Huston · Samson v. Beale · Galbraith v. Weber · Yarnall v. Knickerbocker Co. · Mohr v. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he principal is bound by the act of his agent when he has placed the agent in such position that persons of ordinary prudence, reasonably conversant with business usages and customs, are thereby led to believe and assume that the agent is possessed of certain authority and to deal with him in reliance upon such assumption.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * (S)uch agents do not have implied authority to make a contract of sale, or make representations as to the quality, condition, or income of property, but are limited to finding a purchaser, showing the property to him and identifying it or indicating its boundaries.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Another rule applicable to cases of this kind is that a power given an agent to perform a particular service carries with it the authority to do whatever is usual and necessary to carry into effect the principal power. Johns v. Jaycox, 67 Wash. 403 , 121 Pac. 854 ; Yarnall v. Knickerbocker Co., 120 Wash. 205 , 206 Pac. 936 .”
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.