62 Tex. Civ. App. 163 - Scott v. Kelso’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1988
9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases the principal is entitled to the best effort and unbiased judgment of his agent, and the law, for reasons founded in public policy, forbids the agent’s assumption of a relation which affords temptations antagonistic to his duty. As is said in one of the cases: ‘As agent for the vendor, his duty is to sell at the highest price. As agent for the vendee, his duty is to buy at the lowest. And even if the parties bargain for themselves, they are entitled to the skill, knowledge, and advice of the agent, and at the same time to communicate with him without the slightest fear of betrayal so that it is hardly possible for him to be true to the one without being false to the other.’ ””
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.