Edwards v. Cragg’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1978
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.
Relationships
Relies on 78 Cal. App. 347 - Backman v. Guadalupe Realty Co. · Leicht-Benson Realty & Construction Corp. v. J. D. Stone & Co. · Wilson v. Schmidt & Wilson, Inc. · Richeson v. Wilson · Long v. Flory & Garber
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.
“A broker is never entitled to commissions for failing to perform his contract. To entitle him to his commissions he must succeed and he takes the entire risk of failure for his reward comes only as a consequence of his success.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.