Billops v. Magness Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2015
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 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 Union Carbide Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Lind v. Schenley Industries Inc. · Augustine Gizzi, and Anthony Giaccio v. Texaco, Inc., Appeal of Anthony Giaccio · Nichols v. Arthur Murray, Inc. · Singleton Ex Rel. Singleton v. International Dairy Queen, Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The concept of apparent agency or authority focuses not upon the actual relation of a principal and agent, but the apparent relationship. Manifestations by the alleged principal which create a reasonable belief in a third party that the alleged agent is authorized to bind the principal create an apparent agency from which spring the same legal consequences as those which result from an actual agency. The manifestations may be made directly to the third party, or may be made to the community in general, for example by way of advertising. In order to establish a chain of liability to the principal based upon apparent agency, a litigant must show reliance on the indicia of authority originated by the principal and such reliance must have been reasonable, [citations omitted]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A) litigant must show reliance on the indicia of authority originated by the principal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reveal a triable issue on the question of actual agency,”
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.