2 Ill. App. 3d 708 - Dixon v. Betten’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2015
3 federal appellate · 4 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 108 Ill. App. 2d 160 - Nathan v. Leopold · 9 Ill. 2d 129 - Flynn v. La Salle National Bank · 347 Ill. App. 496 - Nicholson v. Alderson · Schwerdt v. Schwerdt · 226 Ill. App. 619 - Wozniak v. Siegle
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The cases with which we are now dealing include those in which an owner merely puts his land in the broker’s hands, promising him a commission for the service of producing an able and willing purchaser, the broker making no return promise that he can or will produce such a purchaser. Such a transaction as this is an offer of a unilateral contract, an offered promise by the owner creating in the broker a power of accepting by actual rendition of the requested service.’ ” Dixon, 2 Ill. App. 3d 708, 710-11 , 277 N.E.2d 355, 357 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he language of the agreement is clear in its limitation of the owner's right to dispose of the property during the existence of an agency”
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.