Moss & Raley v. Wren’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Paramount Fire Insurance v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1962), 40 Cal. App. 246 - California Land Security Co. v. Ritchie (1919)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 128 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.
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the vendor of the land can enforce a specific performance of the contract to pay for it, then the broker has effected a sale, valid in law, and is entitled to his compensation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as liquidated damages for such injury and damage as the seller may suffer by reason of the nonperformance of this contract on the part of the purchaser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. La Prelle v. Brown
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.