Smith v. Epping’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1992
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 The Floyd Acceptances · Marsh v. Fulton County · Stone v. Bank of Commerce · State ex rel. Lott v. Brewer · Wooster v. Plymouth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tt is a general and fundamental principle of law that all persons contracting with a municipal corporation must, at their peril, inquire into the power of the corporation or its officers to make the contract. ... So, also, those dealing with the agent of a municipal corporation are likewise bound to ascertain the nature and extent of his authority. ... The fact... that the agent made false representations in relation to his authority and what he had already done will not aid those who trusted to such representations to establish a liability on the part of his corporate principal.’””
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.