Fowlds v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1938
6 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 Sinclair v. Tallmadge · Standifer v. Swann · Grant, Alexander & Co. v. Savannah, Griffin & North Alabama Railroad · Neibles v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co. · Wheeler v. . Scofield
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule the fact of agency cannot be established by proof of the acts of the professed agent in the absence of evidence tending to show the principal’s knowledge of such acts, or assent to them; yet when the acts are of such a character and so continued as to justify a reasonable inference that the principal had knowledge of them, and would not have permitted them if unauthorized, the acts themselves are competent evidence of agency.””
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.