Murphy v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When the contract between the broker and the owner expressly makes the payment of commissions dependent upon the obtaining of a certain price for the property the broker cannot recover, even though the owner sells at a less price to a person to whom the broker first offered the property, unless the broker is prevented from making the sale at the stipulated price by the fault of the owner.” “II. Therefore, if you find from the evidence in this case that the property in question was listed with the plaintiff, Dean, as a real estate broker, to be sold by him at a certain price, and you further find that the payment of commissions was conditioned upon the receipt of that price, your verdict should be for the defendants, unless you find that the broker, Dean, was prevented from selling the property at the stipulated price by the fault of the owner, Hartzog.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hartzog v. Dean