Crain v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 1971 · most notably Kyle v. Kansas City Life Insurance (1947), 78 Ind. App. 275 - Thomas v. Hennes (1922)
8 federal appellate · 31 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 LaForce v. Washington University · F. H. & C. B. Gerhart Real Estate Co. v. Marjorie Real Estate Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “The law is well-established in this State that to entitle a real estate broker to his commission he must be the efficient cause in finding a purchaser; that it is not sufficient that the act. of the broker was one of a chain ’of causes bringing about the sale, but in order for the broker to recover for his services, his act or acts must have been the procuring or inducing cause, and the burden is upon him to show, not only that he opened negotiations with the purchaser, but that the sale was actually effected through his means and not by the intervention of new parties or upon different terms. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“.“And where an agent fails to get his offer within the terms of his authorization, and the purchaser afterwards buys the same piece of property on the same or less terms than those on which the first agent had authority to sell, the chain of causation would be broken.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kerr v. Parris
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.