Cantrell v. McLemore’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1951
15 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 Roberts v. Markham · Fitch v. Braddock · Wheelan v. Hunt · Roberts v. Harrington · Ludeman v. English
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a broker fails to bring the minds of the parties to an agreement and the transaction is abandoned, and afterwards the owner-, through his own efforts, without fraud, effects a sale, the broker is not entitled to a commission, because he is not the procuring cause of the sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Forrester v. Jones
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.