Munroe v. Harriman’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.2d 493 · 1936
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Wight v. BankAmerica Corp. (2000), United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1997)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Aldrich v. Chemical National Bank · American National Bank v. Miller · Distilled Spirits · Curtis, Collins & Holbrook Co. v. United States · Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Courtney
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the principal adopts the unauthorized act of his agent in order to retain a benefit for himself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where an agent, though ostensibly acting in the business of the principal, is really committing a fraud for his own benefit, he is acting outside of the scope of his agency, and it would therefore be most unjust to charge the principal with knowledge of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the case at bar, however, Harriman’s domination was exerted to affect the action of the bank with respect to the particular transaction. His will alone caused the making of the loan and the acceptance of the collateral.””
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.