Ward v. Jenson’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1944
13 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 Smith v. Bolles · George v. Hesse · James Sigafus v. Dudley Porter · Olston v. Oregon Water Power & Ry. Co. · Scott v. Walton
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A real estate broker assisted the plaintiff in negotiating the exchange of properties. The defendant requested the court to instruct the *Page 591 jury that notice to the broker was notice to the plaintiff. The court refused to give the requested instruction. The plaintiff claims that the court was warranted in refusing the instruction upon the theory that the broker was also the agent of the defendant. If there was an entire lack of evidence to show that the broker had knowledge of the things complained of, it was proper to refuse the requested instruction; but the fact that a double agency existed, if it did exist, would not of itself under all circumstances warrant a refusal to instruct the jury that notice to the broker is notice to one of the principals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacks v. Manning“Notice to an agent, who, with their knowledge and consent, represents both parties to a transaction, is notice to either of them to whom it would be notice if the agent represented him alone, and if each would be charged the notice to the agent is notice to both. Thus where a principal knows that his agent is also acting as agent for the party adversely interested in the transaction, and yet consents to let him act as his agent, the principal is estopped from denying notice and knowledge which the agent has during the negotiation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacks v. Manning““It is settled in this state that in an action to recover damages for false representations inducing an exchange of property, the measure of damages is the difference between the market value of the property parted with by the person defrauded and the market value of the property received by him”: Citing numerous authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scott v. Wallace
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.