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agent liability

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 359 U.S. 297 - Robert Herd Company v. Krawill Machinery Corporation · 1959Most cited · 655 citing opinions

An agent is liable for all damages caused by his negligence, unless exonerated therefrom, in whole or in part, by a statute or a valid contract binding on the person damaged.

How often courts cite the case defining “agent liability”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “agent liability” — 653 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.