Murray v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1983 · most notably Rieffer v. Hollingsworth (1947), Lumsden v. Jones (1918)
28 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 Sibbald v. . the Bethlehem Iron Company · Brown v. Mason · Ward v. Fletcher · Glascock v. Vanfleet · McGuire v. Carlson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, if, during the life of appellant’s contract, Miller, the owner, had made a sale of the property directly to a prospective purchaser with whom appellant had been negotiating, and whose effort had brought about the direct negotiations with the owner which resulted in the sale, then he would be entitled to a commission. But even if the sale had been made under those circumstances by the owner through another agent who had an equal right with appellant to negotiate a sale, and whose effort contributed equally in bringing about the sale, then the agent who finally secured the purchaser, and not appellant, was entitled to the commission, and the owner is not liable to appellant if he acted in good faith and did not interfere with appellant’s efforts to consummate the sale.”
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.