14 Tenn. App. 500 - Gilbert v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1981
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 Hambleton v. Dignowity
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After a broker lias found a customer and commenced negotiations, neither .the principal nor the customer can break them off and defeat the broker’s right to a commission by concluding the transaction without his aid. Nor can a principal reject an offer made by a person found by a broker and then without the broker’s intervention sell to the same person and thus defeat the broker’s right to a commission. A broker is entitled to a commission for effecting* a sale, although he takes no part in the negotiations, where the sale is effected as the result of his introducing.the customer and the principal or of his putting them into communication; the principal cannot defeat the right to compensation by closing the transaction directly with the customer without the broker’s further aid.” See also 12 C. J. S.,.Brokers, See. 93.”
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.