455 So. 2d 30 - Daniel v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2016
9 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 Crawford v. Tucker · Robinson v. Murphy · National Bread Co. v. Bird · Birmingham Electric Co. v. Cochran · Senn v. Joseph
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attorney employed to represent a litigant in the prosecution or defense of a suit is a special agent of his client and has no implied or inherent authority or right to compromise and settle it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“an agreement of compromise which is entered into by an attorney without authority from his -ehent may become binding if it is ratified by the ehent. Where an attorney had no authority to settle but did so, the ehent may rescind it or he may ratify the settlement agreement. Ratification may be express, but its presence or absence is more usually implied from the circumstances of the particular case. “Silence and inaction on his [the chent’s] part after knowledge is a ratification as a matter of law. He cannot ratify in part; cannot hold the fruits of transaction and deny to the other the benefits accruing to him....” Shght evidence of acquiescence on a Ghent’s part may be deemed ratification of the acts of his attorney in making a compromise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[a]n agent's apparent authority must be founded upon the conduct of the principal and not upon the conduct of the agent.'”
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.