Partee v. Pepple’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Koch v. H. & S. DEVELOPMENT CO. (1964), Canizaro v. Mobile Communications Corp. of Am. (1995)
2 federal appellate · 57 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 Stewart v. Coleman & Co. · Johnson v. Sutton · Kolb v. J. E. Bennett Land Co. · Cook v. Smith · Hays v. Goodman-Leonard Realty Co.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Where the contract between the owner of the property and the agent specifies the price and the terms of sale, the agent performs his duty, and is entitled to his commission, when he procures a purchaser ready, willing and able to buy, even though the owner may then decline to sell. 2. Where property is placed in the hands of a real-estate agent for sale at a certain price, and on specified terms, and a sale is brought about through the efforts of the agent as the procuring cause, he is entitled to his commissions on the sale, even though the final negotiations were conducted through the owner, who, in order to make the sale, accepts a price less than that stipulated to the agent, or when he sells at the price which the agent was authorized to make the sale. 3. Where the contract expressly makes the payment of a commission depend on the obtaining of a certain price for the property and the making of the sale on specified terms, the agent cannot recover, even though the owner sells at a lesser price, or on less favorable terms to a person whom the agent produced as a prospective purchaser, unless the agent is prevented from making a sale by the fault of the owner — an exception to the two general rules above stated.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the trial of causes in the chancery courts of the State of Mississippi, the defendant shall have the right and be entitled to introduce his evidence, notwithstanding the fact that he may have made a motion to exclude the evidence of the complainant, and that such motion was by the court overruled.”
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.