Sumner v. Reicheniker’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the next place, the agent is entitled to his commissions only upon a due and faithful performance of all the duties of his agency in regard to his principal. * * * If, therefore, the agent does not perform his appropriate duties, or if he is guilty of gross negligence, or gross misconduct, or gross unskillfulness in the business of his agency, he will not only become liable to his principal for any damages which he may sustain thereby, but he will also forfeit all his commissions. Slight negligence, or slight omissions of duty, will not, indeed, ordinarily, be visited with such serious consequences, although, if any loss has occurred thereby to the principal, it will be followed by a proportionate diminution of the commissions.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Blair v. Shaeffer