MacWilliams v. Bright’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1994
2 district · 12 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 · Crowe v. Trickey · Leimbach v. Nicholson · E. A. Strout Realty Agency, Inc. v. Wooster · Wyand v. Patterson Agency, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A]n owner may not take advantage of a broker’s services to secure a prospective purchaser and then deprive him of his commissions by selling directly to his client at a price less than the broker could sell under his authority, particularly where the authority is unrevoked---- In such a case the inference may be drawn that the broker was in fact the procuring cause, and that the owner’s refusal to accept the offer submitted was a subterfuge to avoid payment of commissions which the broker had fairly earned.””
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.