Hurley v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1980
23 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Greenwood v. Burns · McCormick v. Keith · Rodick v. Coburn · Whitney v. State Bank
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the plaintiffs knew of the manner of dealing between Clark and Watson, and kept silent and suffered it to go on without objection for the length of time shown in the testimony, the jury would have been warranted in finding that they had ratified that course of dealing. But there must be evidence tending to prove such knowledge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurley v. Watson““If there is anything likely to put a reasonable business man upon his guard as to the authority of the agent, it is the duty of the third party to inquire how far the agent’s acts are in pursuance of the principal’s limitation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There is a presumption that a person is cognizant of the contents of his own books of account.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurley v. Watson
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.