Bishop v. Everson Mfg. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · People ex rel. Lafferty v. Feicke · The St. Louis & Sandoval Coal & Mining Co. v. Sandoval Coal & Mining Co. · Atwood v. Sault Ste. Marie Light, Heat & Power Co. · White House Mountain Gold Mining Co. v. Powell
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is his [agent of the corporation] claim for services that is sought to be collected. Naturally he would want plaintiff to recover, even if a failure imposed no legal liability on him, and it would be to his interest to withhold from defendant the fact that the action was begun. We do not say that he did or would. But courts will not sanction a doctrine that would inevitably lead to fraud, and place an agent in a position where, as between his assignee and his principal, he cannot be true to one without being, in a measure, false to the other. To hold this service good would be as obnoxious to a fine sense of justice as to declare that service on a plaintiff gives the court jurisdiction of the person of defendant....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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