Potter v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Marr Scaffolding Co., Inc. v. Fairground Forms, Inc. · Attorney Grievance Commission v. Bernstein · Ferrelli v. Department of Employment Security · Clark v. Peckham · School Committee of Providence v. Board of Regents for Education
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A]ny party dealing with a municipality is bound at his own peril to know the extent of its capacity. * * * [A] person's failure to discover the true scope of a government agent’s actual authority will not provide any grounds to relieve that person’s detrimental reliance upon the agent's representations or actions.””
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.