Vickers v. North American Land Developments, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 30 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Mark V, Inc. v. Mellekas (1993), Levenson v. Mobley (1987)
5 federal appellate · 30 district · 42 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 Douglass v. Mutual Ben. Health & Accident Ass'n · McKinney v. Davis · Thompson v. Occidental Life Ins. Co. of Cal. · Alvarez v. Southwestern Life Insurance Co., Inc. · Southwestern Portland Cement v. Beavers
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Doctrine of Apparent Authority is based upon an estoppel theory: [T]he principal will not be permitted to establish that the agent’s authority was less than what was apparent from the course of dealing for when one of two innocent parties must suffer, the loss must fall upon the party who created the enabling circumstances. (Citations omitted.) Southwestern Portland Cement v. Beavers, 82 N.M. 218, 221 , 478 P.2d 546, 549 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he mere fact that the parties are in disagreement on the construction to be given does not necessarily establish ambiguity,”
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.