David v. Shippy’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2006
13 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 Lubbock Feed Lots, Inc. v. Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. · 1 Conn. App. 680 - New England Whalers Hockey Club v. Nair · 1 Ohio App. 3d 118 - James G. Smith & Associates, Inc. v. Everett · 2 Ariz. App. 534 - Myers-Leiber Sign Co. v. Weirich · Stern v. Lieberman
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 is not the third person’s duty to seek out the identity of the principal; rather, the duty to disclose the identity of the principal is on the agent ... Furthermore, the use of a tradename is not necessarily a sufficient disclosure of the identity of the principal and the fact of agency so as to protect the agent against personal liability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a general rule that where one who is in fact the agent for another makes a contract with the third party without disclosing the fact of agency, or if he discloses such fact without disclosing the identity of his principal, he will be individually bound by the contract and the third party may hold the agent or the undisclosed principal at this election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“identity of the principal if he knows, has reason to know, or should know of it, or has been given a notification of the fact.”
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.