Dean v. Wendeberg’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1979
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Brackenridge v. Claridge & Payne · Wilson v. Mason · Gilder v. . Davis · Fox v. Ryan · Smith v. Schiele
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [I]t would be manifestly unjust that the principal could avoid paying a commission fairly earned if by his own fault or misconduct or wrongful neglect he has prevented the consummation of his contract with the buyer, and the courts will not sanction such injustice . . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Ordinarily a real-estate agent is entitled to his commission if he has produced a person ready, willing, and able to buy on the terms authorized by the vendor. In the absence of any agreement to the contrary, the commission is earned when the proposed purchaser is able and willing to take the property or enter into a valid contract upon the terms which have been specified by the principal. Willes v. Smith, 77 Wis. 81, 45 N. W. 666 ; Rees v. Spruance, 45 Ill. 308 ; Wilson v. Mason, 158 Ill. 304 , 42 N. E. 134 . See many cases cited in 44 L. R. A. 593.””
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.