State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
November 2003
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 383 So. 2d 308 - Accredited Surety and Casualty Company, Inc. v. State · 233 So. 2d 788 - Resolute Insurance Co. v. State · Frontier Insurance Co. v. State · Bragg v. State
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person authorized by another (principal) to act for or in place of him; one entrusted with another’s business.... A business representative, whose function is to bring about, modify, affect, accept performance of, or terminate contractual obligations between principal and third persons.... One who deals not only with things, as does a servant, but with persons, using his own discretion as to means, and frequently establishing contractual relations between his principal and third persons. One authorized to transact all business of principal....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norris v. Cox
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.