Whitcomb v. Oller’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 1974 · most notably Kirkland v. General Motors Corporation (1974), Lee v. Little (1921)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 Chickasha Cotton Oil Co. v. Lamb & Tyner · Horton v. Early · Holden v. Lynn · Garvin v. Harrell · D. Sullivan & Co. v. Ramsey
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In addition to the evidence of agency and proof of authority to the agent, the rule may properly be invoked that when a principal, after knowledge that an 'agent, without authority, has purchased for him certain property, retains possession, and uses the same for a considerable period of time, and obtains tho benefit thereof, such acts constitute a ratification of the unauthorized act of the agent, and renders the principal liable for (lie payment of the purchase money.” United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Shirk, 20 Okla. 576 , 95 P. 218 ; Fant v. Campbell, 8 Okla. 586 , 58 P. 741 ; Newhall v. Joseph Levy Bag Co., 19 Cal. App. 9 , 124 P. 875 ; Haney School Furniture Co. v. Hightower Baptist Institute, 113 Ga. 289 , 38 S. E. 761 ; Henry Bogt Mach. Co. v. Lingenfelser, 62 S. W. 499 , 23 Ky. Law Rep. 38 ; Anderson v. Johnson, 74 Minn. 171 , 77 N. W. 26 ; Hobkirk v. Green, 26 Misc. Rep. 18 , 55 N. Y. Supp. 605 ; Bodine v. Berg, 82 N. J. 662, 82 Atl. 901 , 40 L. R. A. (N. S.) 65, Ann. Cas. 19131), 721; Russell v. Waterloo Threshing Mach. Co., 17 N. D. 248 , 116 N. W. 611 ; Andersen Coal Mining Co. v. Sloan, Howell & Co., 46 Pa. Super. Ct. 320 ; D. Sullivan & Co. v. Ramsey (Tex. Civ. App.) 155 S. W. 580 ; Union Bank & Trust Co. v. Long Pole Lbr. Co., 70 W. Va. 558 , 74 S. E. 674 , 41 L. R. A. (N. S.) 663; Twentieth Century Co. v. Quilling, 136 Wis. 481 , 117 N. W. 1007 ; I Clark & Skyles on the Law of Agency, p. 325; Mechem on Agency, 148, 150.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Little · Crookum v. Ketchum““The same degree of particularity in pleading is not required in actions before a. justice of the peace that is required in courts of record, and a pleading that is sufficient in a justice’s court is sufficient in an appellate court, where the cause is tried de novo. Garvin v. Harrell, 27 Okla. 373 , 113 Pac. 186 , 35 L R. A. (N. S.) 862, Ann. Cas. 1912B, 744; Holden v. Lynn, 30 Okla. 663 , 120 Pac. 246 , 38 L. R. A. (N. S.) 239; White v. Oliver, 32 Okla. 479 , 122 Pac. 156 ; Rice et al. v. Folsom, 32 Okla. 496 , 122 Pac. 236 .” Whitcomb v. Oller et al., 41 Okla. 331 , 137 Pac. 709 ; Idabel v. Harrison, 42 Okla. 469 , 141 Pac. 1110 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robberson v. Gibson““* * * It was not sought to introduce the admissions or declarations of the agent as to the fact of the agency. The agent himself was the witness testifying, and it was competent for him to give testimony whether the relation existed or not, and its extent, if it, in fact did exist.””
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.