Public agent
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 5 U.S. 345 - Hodgson v. Dexter · 1803Most cited · 44 citing opinions
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It is too clear to be controverted, that where a public agent acts in the line of his duty and by legal authority, his contracts made on account of the government are public and not personal. They enure to the benefit of, and are obligatory on the government, not the officer.
How often courts cite the case defining “Public agent”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Public agent” — 44 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.