Flippo v. Broome’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1994
10 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 Snidow v. First National Bank · Rogers v. Runyon · Payne v. Payne · Smith v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY · Smith v. Pippin
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The seller] intended her contract of sale to be binding on her when she mailed her executed deed to [the agent] for delivery to [the purchaser]. It was her will that the deed pass into the possession of [the purchaser], and it was the duty of [the agent] to comply with her directions.”
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.