Chouteau v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 1938 · most notably United States Harshman v. County Court of Knox Co. (1887), German American Mutual Life Ass'n v. Farley (1897)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Markham v. . Jaudon · Hoyt v. . Thompson's · First National Bank v. Gay · Hayward, Assignee v. National Insurance · Kansas City Hotel Co. v. Sauer
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule that the knowledge of the agent affects the principal, is applicable not only to knowledge acquired during the continuance of the agency, but to such as was acquired so shortly before it began as necessarily to give rise to the inference that it remained fixed in the mind of the agent during his employment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.