106 Cal. App. 277 - Brooks v. Gross’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1981
7 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 See v. North American Accident Insurance · Twogood v. Monnette · Gunn v. Bank of California · 59 Cal. App. 330 - Johnson v. Krier · Massie v. Chatom
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where, as in this case, a broker brings an owner and prospective buyer together, and they negotiate a contract to their own liking, and the owner takes the consummation of the sale into his own hands and away from his brokers, he cannot complain if the contract with his buyer, which he himself prepared, is defective and does not lead to a final transfer of the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Upchurch
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.