Matthews Bros. v. Bernius’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1952
6 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 R. J. & B. F. Camp Lumber Co. v. Tedder · 16 Ala. App. 369 - Cofield v. McGraw & Garner · Jordy v. Salmen Brick & Lumber Co. · S. B. Hicks Motor Co. v. Caldwell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * a real estate agent as a general thing is not required, before making a contract contemplating the sale of real estate, to cause the title to be examined to determine whether the person who lists it is really the owner. Gurley v. Loeffler, 14 Orl. [Orleans] App.. 424; E. [R] J. & B. F. Camp Lumber Co. v. Tedder, 78 Fla. 183 , 82 So. 865 ; Cofield v. McGraw & Garner, 16 Ala.App. 369 , 77 So. 981 . ****** “ * * *. Mrs. Bernius was under no general disability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doll v. Untz
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.