Gould v. St. John’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1926
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 First National Bank v. Wood · Iron Mountain Bank v. Armstrong · Reid v. Piedmont & Arlington Life Insurance · Millar v. Madison Car Co. · Cook v. St. Louis & Keokuk Railroad
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.
““Fred J. Gould, Versaillies,'Mo. “Dear Sir: — We will give you one-half of all the gross profits made by us in the sale of any real estate to customers brought or sent us by you. When the party is sent us, you must.give them a letter of introduction, or otherwise notify us, before such sale is made that .such buyer is your customer. We will pay you your share in each sale as soon as the same is completed. You to transact this class of business in this county solely through our firm. You to bear your own expenses; we to bear ours; this arrangement to be terminated at the will of .either of us, but such termination not to interfere with any deal on hand, or otherwise made. Very truly yours, St. John & Noyes. “I hereby accept the above conditions and will use my best efforts for the success of the undertaking. Fred J. Gourd.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gould v. St. John
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.