Mullenger v. Clause’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1990
13 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 Pennington v. Fourth National Bank of Cincinnati · Ellsworth Dobbs, Inc. v. Johnson · Tice v. Wilmington Chemical Corporation · Esterdahl v. Wilson · 71 F. Supp. 832 - Knoop v. Anderson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though the seller and the purchaser enter into a tentative agreement as to the terms of the sale, if a condition precedent to the contract’s taking effect, such as a present cash payment, is not performed by the buyer, then the agent is not entitled to this commission for the purchaser is not ready, willing, and able to make the purchase on the terms proposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodgers v. Baughman
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.