Marshall v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2001
6 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 Sibbald v. . the Bethlehem Iron Company · Bolich-Hall Realty & Insurance v. Disher · Jackson v. Northwestern Mut. Life Ins.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘procuring cause’, as used in describing a broker’s activity, means more than ‘but for’ causation. It refers to a cause originating a series of events which, without break in their continuity, result in accomplishment of the prime objective of employment of the broker, which usually consists of procuring a purchaser ready, willing, and able to buy property on the owner’s terms or of effecting a sale. * * * ” Marshall v. White, 245 F.Supp. 514, 517 (W.D.N.C.1965).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here a broker’s prospect refuses or is unable to purchase the property individually, and thereafter, without the intervention of the broker, the property is sold to a partnership or syndicate of which the prospect was a member at the time of the broker’s negotiation, or with which the prospect subsequently became associated for the purpose of purchasing the property, the broker is not entitled to compensation.”
2 later decisions 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.