Smith v. Dare’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There is no implication to be found anywhere in the contract that his authority, or any part of it, was conferred upon him as a security for indebtedness due to him or thereafter to become due him from the Dares, or that he paid anything for his agency or for any of the powers that were conferred on him. This case, therefore, falls within the principles laid down in Hunt v. Rousmanier, 8 Wheaton, 174 , and in Attrill v. Patterson, 58 Md. 250 . In these cases it was held that ‘as a general rule an agent’s authority to act for his principal is always revocable at the will of the principal by withdrawing his authority, unless the authority be coupled with an interest, or has been conferred on the agent for a valuable compensation moving from him to the principal;’ and that ‘an authority coupled with an interest’ is an ‘interest in the thing itself on which the authority is to be exercised and not an interest in that which is to be produced by the exercise of the power.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 21 Md. App. 165 - Lee v. O'Brien