Jacobs v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2009
4 district · 15 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 Craft Refrigerating MacHine Co. v. Quinnipiac Brewing Co. · Falk v. Moebs · Liebscher v. Kraus · Ogden v. Raymond · Connecticut Hospital for the Insane v. Town of Brookfield
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he almost universally accepted and reasonable rule of construction is that where the signature is that of the corporation, and the name or names of one or more of its officers in their official capacity are appended as subscribing agents . . . the corporation will be regarded as the signer and obligor, and the individuals will not be obligated, unless other language or the general tenor of the writing indicates a contrary intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when fairly interpreted, does not contain a personal undertaking or promise, [the agent] is not personally liable; for it is not his contract and the law will not force it upon him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“or similar word expression of their agency, and although the pronoun”
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.