Doolittle v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2015
3 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had no title or incidents of ownership; no sale was consumated [sic] until the buyer’s offer was submitted to the owner where there was a counter-offer, or when the buyer’s acceptance was made known to the seller and the seller accepted such counter-offer, if any, executed a bill of sale to the purchased and the boat was delivered. Any sale was a sale by the owner and not by the [broker] and in whatever way the [broker] participated in the processing of the sale, his efforts were merely preparatory to the sale and not a sale for the owner’s account.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Casual sale” shall not include any transaction in which tangible personal property is sold ... by a representative for the owner’s account when such representative is a registered retailer, in which event such registered retailer shall have the same duties respecting such sale as if he had sold on his own account.”
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.