87 Ga. App. 692 - Kellett v. Boynton’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1999
4 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 Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Tapley · Davis v. Arthur · 3 Ga. App. 756 - Williams v. Moore-Gaunt Co. · Hodgson v. Raphael · Dolvin Realty Company v. Holley
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.
“The law is uniform and well settled that an agent, who has been engaged to sell real estate for the owner, may not, either directly or indirectly, purchase it himself, without the express consent of the principal after a full knowledge of all the facts. This is so declared by our Code, [OCGA § 10-6-24].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The relationship of principal and agent is confidential and fiduciary, and demands of the agent loyalty and good faith to the principal ([cits.]); and [OCGA § 10-6-25] provides that `The agent shall not make a personal profit from his principal's property; for all such he in bound to account.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Without the express consent of the principal after a full knowledge of all the facts, an agent employed to sell may not himself be the purchaser ....”
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.