Ford v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2013
4 federal appellate · 17 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 Rosenfield v. Wall · Leicht-Benson Realty & Construction Corp. v. J. D. Stone & Co. · Wilson v. Schmidt & Wilson, Inc. · Realty Co. of Virginia, Inc. v. Burcum · Snider v. New River Insurance & Realty Corp.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the broker has failed to produce a buyer within the time specified in his contract, or if the seller in good faith has terminated an agency indefinite in time, and the owner thereafter sells, the broker is not entitled to commission upon the sale merely because the purchaser is one whom he introduced to the owner or to the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] real estate broker is the procuring cause of a sale when it has “originated or caused a series of events which, without break in their continuity, result in the accomplishment of the prime object of [its] employment, which is, usually, to procure a purchaser ready, willing and able to buy on the owner’s terms.””
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.