24 Tex. Civ. App. 627 - Duval v. Moody’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

45 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is now the well-settled doctrine that in the absence of any usage or contract, express or implied, or conduct of the seller, preventing the completion of the bargain by the broker, an action by the broker for his commissions will not lie until it is shown that he has effected or procured a sale of the property, and it is not enough that the broker has devoted his time, labor, or money in the interest of his employer, as unsuccessful efforts, however meritorious, offer no ground of action, and that, where his acts effect no agreement or contract between his employer and the purchaser, the loss must be his own. In such eases he loses his labor and efforts which he staked upon success, and if there is no contract there is no reward, as his commissions are based upon the contract of sale.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Combes v. Ayres