Meyer v. Stein’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1973
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.
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.
““ Fairly construed, the legislative intent of this statute imposing a penalty of not more than four times the amount of the commission received by an unlicensed broker applies and extends only to such persons as are immediately and proximately injured by the very act prohibited and their privies. “ If construed to permit the action to recover the penalty by other than the party injured directly by the payment of claimed real estate commissions, it would confer a right of action on persons other than those proximately damaged and injured by payments of brokerage commissions on a real estate transaction to a person who was not duly licensed as a real estate broker, and would be an improper and indefinite extension and make too broad the persons who could enforce the penalty, and indeed might result in several actions for the same penalty. ’ ’”
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.