Tinsley v. Dowell’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Lubbock Feed Lots, Inc. v. Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. (1980), Cavaness v. General Corporation (1955)
4 federal appellate · 63 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.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““First, where the agent contracts in his own name; second, where the agent does not disclose his principal, who is unknown; third, where by the usages of trade the agent is authorized to act as owner of the property; fourth, where the agent has an interest in the subject matter of the contract.” (Tinsley v. Dowell, 87 Tex. 23, 28 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sievert v. Wood
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.