Greene v. Hellman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Fletcher v. Atex, Inc. (1995), Fieger v. Pitney Bowes Credit Corp. (2001)
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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.
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Apparent authority is dependent on verbal or other acts by a principal which reasonably give an appearance of authority.... [T]he third party must be aware of them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that there must be a direct and proximate link, as distinguished from one that is indirect and remote, between the bare introduction and the consummation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is that the third person, accepting the appearance of authority as true, has relied upon it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.