Pope v. Landy’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2016
1 federal appellate · 3 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 Boston Ice Co. v. Potter · Sladovich v. Glaser · Graves & Barnewall v. Boston Marine Insurance · Crowder v. Yovovich · Western Sugar Refining Co. v. Helvetia Swiss Fire Ins.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But an undisclosed principal can neither sue nor be sued on a contra~ct in writing, if proof of the agency of the person actually signing that contract would violate any of its provisions. In other words, a person who signs a contract expressly as principal cannot be permitted to show, in contradiction of the written instrt~tment, that he was merely acting as an agent for another. * * * And this rule has been applied when there is an express representation or assertion of a fact in the contract indicating an intent of a party to contract as a principal, and, therefore, not in any other capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.