Ackley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2012
10 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 Wade v. State · Herndon v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. · Gibson v. Gillette Motor Transport, Inc. · Page v. State · Traders & General Ins. Co. v. Wood
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An agent is one who is authorized by another to transact business or manage some affair for him, and to render to him an accounting of such transaction. The term ‘agency’ denotes a consensual relation existing between two persons, by virtue of which one of them is to act for and on behalf of the other, being subject to the other’s control. 2 Tex.Jur.2d, Agency, Sec. 1, p. 436 (1959). “* * * The chief distinction between an agent and a servant is that an agent is employed to represent his principal in business dealings and to establish contractual relations between him and third persons, whereas the servant is not. * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heggins v. State““No person authorized to sell beer at retail, nor his agent, servant, or employee, may engage in or permit conduct on the premises of the retailer which is lewd, immoral, or offensive to public decency, including, but not limited to, any of the following acts: * * * * * * “(6) becoming intoxicated on the licensed premises or permitting an intoxicated person to remain on the licensed premises; . ...” 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heggins v. State
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.