Butler v. Dorman’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1938
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Higgins v. . Moore · Rice v. Groffmann · Brooks v. Jameson · Sumner v. Saunders
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems clear that, where the principal has clothed the agent with the indicia of authority to receive payment, as by intrusting to him the possession of the goods to he sold [italics supplied], the purchaser is warranted in paying the price to the agent, but when the agent has not the possession of the goods, or other indicia of authority, and is only authorized to sell, if the purchaser pays the price to the agent, he does so at his peril, and it devolves upon him, in a suit for the purchase money by the principal,- to prove that the agent was also authorized to receive payment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Halle v. Brooks
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.