Fitzpatrick v. Underwood’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 73 Cal. App. 2d 284 - Kompf v. Morrison (1946), Marks v. Walter G. McCarty Corp. (1949)
33 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 Gin S. Chow v. City of Santa Barbara · Fleming v. Dolfin · Perry v. Quackenbush · Pico v. Cuyas · Smith v. Acker
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agent may recover damages for the breach of an exclusive agency contract by the principal even though he has not produced a purchaser ready, willing and able to purchase, where the breach by the principal consists of preventing the agent from selling the property by selling it himself before the agency contract has expired”
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.