Reeder v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘ ‘ The law is well settled that, in the absence of a special contract providing otherwise, an agent employed to sell or find a purchaser for land earns his commission and is entitled to recover the same when he produces a purchaser ready, willing and able to buy upon the terms .named and the principal enters into a binding contract with the produced purchaser or having an opportunity to do so declines to accept the purchaser. Moore v. Irwin, 89 Ark. 289 . “He must, however, have the opportunity to accept the purchaser upon the terms named and to enter into a binding contract, for if the negotiations are stopped by the purchaser without fault of the principal before a binding contract is entered into, then no commissions are earned. “ ‘The broker, having presented a proposed purchaser who is capable of entering into a contract of purchase, and willing to do so,'has earned his commission when the vendor accepts him and enters into a valid contract with him for the sale of the land, even though the sale is never in fact consummated by reason of the failure of the proposed purchaser to perform his part of the contract.’’ Moore v. Irwin, supra.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lasker-Morris Bank & Trust Co. v. Jones