Bolles v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Navajo Tribe of Indians v. Hanosh Chevrolet-Buick, Inc. (1988), Gonzales v. Atnip (1984)
1 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 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 Ott v. Keller · Walton v. State ex rel. Road Commission · Augustus v. John Williams & Associates, Inc. · Mitschelen v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order for an attorney to bind a client to a settlement agreement, he must have specific authority to do so, unless there is an emergency or some overriding reason for enforcing the settlement despite the attorney's lack of specific authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.