Alger v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
78 F. 729 · 1897
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1929
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Kerrison Assignee v. Stewart et al. · Richardson v. Hardwick · Carey v. Brown · Veazie v. Williams · City of Findlay v. Pertz
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““IIow far a fact of this kind may have influenced the agent is in its nature-an intangible mental condition very largely, and could only be rationally judged of by what follows. It would probably never be in the power of the principal complaining of the transaction to affirmatively show what was the secret operation of such an influence on the mind of a treacherous representative. It is well settled, consequently, that the fact of the agent having been bribed or tempted to betray his principal is sufficient to entitle the principal to repudiate the transaction, and it is not necessary as a basis, for relief for such principal to show the actual effect of the bribe or gift upon the agent. The ground on which the rule rests is much deeper and broader than a mere question of evidence, and takes into full account human nature. The agent is not, allowed, by gift, commission, or other form of compensation or consideration, to assume an attitude in conflict with the very best interests of his principal. It is a relation which, on grounds of public policy, demands the utmost loyalty to the principal at all times.” City of Findlay v. Pertz, 66 Fed. 427 , 13 C. C. A. 559 , 29 L. R. A. 188 ; Zinc Carbonate Co. v. First National Bank of Shullsburg, 103 Wis. 125 , 79 N. W. 229 , 74 Am. St. Rep. 815 .”
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.