Womack v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1949 · most notably 113 Ind. App. 296 - Heffner v. White (1942), Renick v. Mann (1922)
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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that a party who makes a contract like this i's liable for the whole of the compensation agreed to be paid, although he did not own the land he placed with the broker for sale, or only owned an interest in it, and was unable to carry out his contract because he did not own it, or because the other owners would not consent to the sale, although there might be an exception to this rule if the broker had knowledge of the fact that the person making the contract was not authorized to do so; Rounds v. Alee, 116 Ia. 345 ; Oliver v. Morawetz, 97 Wis. 332 ; Gorman v. Hargis, 6 Okla, 360.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Renick v. Mann
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.