Ricker v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Impala Platinum Ltd. v. Impala Sales (U.S.A.), Inc. (1978), Beahm v. Shortall (1977)
60 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 Leimbach v. Nicholson · Heslop v. Dieudonne · Wooddy v. Wooddy · Steele v. Seth · Blake v. Stump
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever, in the absence of special agreement to the contrary, a real estate broker employed to sell, buy, lease or otherwise negotiate real or leasehold estates or mortgages, or loans thereon, procures in good faith a purchaser, seller, lessor or lessee, mortgagor or mortgagee, borrower or lender, as the case may be, and the person so procured is accepted as such by the employer, and enters into a valid, binding and enforceable written contract of sale, purchase, lease, mortgage, loan or other contract, as the case may be, in terms acceptable to the employer, and such contract is accepted by the employer and signed by him, the broker shall be deemed to have earned the customary or agreed commission, as the case may be, whether or not the contract entered into be actually performed, unless the performance of such contract be prevented, hindered or delayed by any act of the broker.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since Mrs. Ricker did not raise this point in her brief or in argument before us, we must regard it as having been waived, Eggert v. Montgomery County Council, 263 Md. 243 , 282 A.2d 474 (1971); Wooddy v. Wooddy, 256 Md. 440, 450-51 , 261 A.2d 486 (1970); Mullins v. Thorne, 254 Md. 434, 437 , 255 A.2d 409 (1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.