Irby v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2000
2 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 Wilcox v. Reynolds · Widing v. JENSEN, REAL ESTATE COMMISSIONER
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law requires perfect good faith on the part of an agent towards his principal, not only in form, but in substance; and the obligation of an agent to his principal demands the strictest integrity, good faith and most faithful service... Where an agent undertakes to sustain dealings with his own principal, it must appear that the agent gave his pnncipal full information concerning his relation to the contract and the matenal circumstances.” (emphasis added). 512 P.2d at 255 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule requiring a broker to act with the utmost good faith toward his principal places him under a legal obligation to make a full [sic] fair, and prompt disclosure to his employer of all facts within his knowledge which are or might be material to the matter in connection with which he is employed.”
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.