Froneberger v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hancock v. Mid-South Management Co., Inc. · Bayle v. South Carolina Department of Transportation · Simmons v. Tuomey Regional Medical Center · Fernander v. Thigpen · Dawkins v. Fields
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Agency is the fiduciary relationship that arises when one person (a 'principal') manifests assent to another person (an 'agent') that the agent shall act on the principal's behalf and subject to the principal's control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Apparent authority to do an act is created as to a third person by written or spoken words or any other conduct of the principal which, reasonably interpreted, causes the third person to believe the principal consents to have the act done on his behalf by the person purporting to act for him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Agency ... results from the manifestation of consent * by one person to another to be subject to the control of the other and to act on his behalf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.