Willey v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2019
1 district · 16 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 King v. Bankerd · Gresham State Bank v. O & K Construction Co. · Anna C. Bagby, Individually and as Guardian of Kenneth Bagby and Dixie Bagby, Minors v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Commerce Bank of Kansas City v. Traders National Bank and City National Bank and Trust Co., Fourth-Party Anna C. Bagby, Individually and as Guardian of Kenneth Bagby and Dixie Bagby, Minors v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Commerce Bank of Kansas City v. Traders National Bank and City National Bank & Trust Company · Jones v. Van Norman · Zions First National Bank v. Clark Clinic Corp.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘An otherwise authorized signature on a negotiable instrument is not converted into an unauthorized forgery when an agent, authorized to sign negotiable instruments in his principal’s name, abuses that authority by negotiating the instrument to a holder in due course for the agent’s own personal benefit. The question of whether the agent was authorized to pledge an instrument as security for a personal loan is separate from the question of whether the agent was authorized to sign his principal’s name to the instrument in the first instance.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An agent can make his principal responsible for his actions if he is acting pursuant to either actual or apparent authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an agent, authorized to ... endorse checks ... endorses one to a named payee or endorsee, intending to simulate the name of a creditor of the principal and embezzle the proceeds”
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.