Grinde v. Chipman’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2015
1 federal appellate · 10 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 McElwain v. Huston · Lindley v. Keim · Armstrong v. Lowe · Brown v. Griswold · 20 N.J. Eq. 236 - Morris v. Ruddy
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the great weight of authority the words ‘to sell’ or ‘to procure a purchaser’ are synonymous terms when used in a real-estate brokerage contract or listing agreement. (Numerous authorities cited.) The authority conferred upon a broker by such an agreement which employs him 'to sell’ does not authorize him either to execute a conveyance of the premises or to enter into an agreement to convey.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laughlin v. Goff““By the great weight of authority, the words ‘to sell’ or ‘to procure a purchaser’ are synonymous terms when used in a real estate brokerage contract or listing agreement.””
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.