Anderson v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably English v. Fischer (1983), Burrow v. Arce (1999)
3 federal appellate · 19 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 Kinzbach Tool Co. v. Corbett-Wallace Corp. · United States v. Carter · Iriart v. Johnson · Sylvester v. Beck · Armstrong v. O'Brien
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he self-interest of the agent is considered a vice which renders the transaction voidable at the election of the principal without looking into the matter further than to ascertain that the interest of the agent exists' ”) (quoting Burle-son v. Earnest, 153 S.W.2d 869, 874 (Tex.Civ. App. — Amarillo 1941, writ ref'd w.o.m.)); see also Judwin Properties, Inc. v. Griggs & Harrison, P.C., 911 S.W.2d 498, 507 (Tex.App.— Houston [1st Dist.] 1995, no writ) (stating in dicta that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burrow v. Arce“[I]f an agent for the sale of his principal’s property should buy it himself, either directly or through the instrumentality of a third person, the purchase is voidable at the option of the principal; the transaction will be set aside, even if the agent proves that the price is fair and reasonable and that there is no element of undue advantage; nothing will defeat the principal’s remedy except his own confirmation after full knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gordin v. Shuler
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.