Shaffer v. Maier’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Moskovitz v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center (1994), Harris v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center (2007)
3 federal appellate · 72 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 141 Ohio St. 584 - Johnson v. Wagner Provision Co.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a principal to be bound by an agent's acts, the evidence must show that: 1) the defendant made representations leading the plaintiff to reasonably believe that the wrongdoer was operating as an agent under the defendant's authority; and 2) the plaintiff was thereby induced to rely upon the ostensible agency relationship to his or her detriment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'the clear, best choice [is] to send the jury back for further deliberations.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jenkins v. Grawe · Brown v. Taylor“"When one or more of the answers is inconsistent with the general verdict, [1] judgment may be entered pursuant to Rule 58 in accordance with the answers, notwithstanding the general verdict, or [2] the court may return the jury for further consideration of its answers and verdict or [3] may order a new trial." (Numbers added.) Civ.R. 49(B).”
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.