Secor v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1982
4 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 Vinton v. Baldwin · Havens v. Jones · Smithers v. Heather · Smith v. Hart
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rights and duties of a broker employed to secure a loan depend upon the same principles which govern the broker who undertakes to find a purchaser of property. The loan broker is entitled to his commissions when he has procured a lender who is ready, willing, and able to lend the money upon the terms proposed.”
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.