Shorten v. Mueller’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1984
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Welch v. Montgomery · Artlin Realty Co. v. Glass · Bateman v. Richard · Rutter v. Heatly · Tri-State Casualty Ins. Co. v. Stekoll
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) “The applicable general rule is stated in 8 Am.Jur., section 195, as follows : 'It may be stated generally that a broker having an exclusive agency to negotiate a sale of property for á specified commission' may recover such commission where the owner effects a sale through another broker, even though the first broker has not procured a purchaser' ready, able, and willing to comply with the terms of the contract, * * *.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““By their verdict it is apparent the jury rejected defendant’s evidence and accepted that of plaintiff as disclosing the essential facts surrounding this transaction. Under the familiar and settled rule we are bound by the jury’s conclusion in this regard. Green v. Smith, 204 Okl. 595 , 232 P.2d 406 . * * * «”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.