Fennell v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2002
2 federal appellate · 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 143 Cal. App. 2d 656 - Kruse v. Miller · Wise v. Dawson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law of agency contemplates that an agent may serve only one principal with respect to any one transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The [trial] court obviously, and we think correcdy, regarded the question of whether [the listing agent] was the agent of the sellers or of the buyers as one of law. That is the question his decision turned upon, and it is thus the one we must address. Here we are dealing with a garden variety MLS property sale transaction conducted by two real estate broker through their agents. Obviously, the broker and agent who listed the property with MLS was the representative of the sellers, but what of the others...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The law of agency contemplates that an agent may serve only one principal with respect to any one transaction (citation omitted). We agree with the authorities and authors cited above who have reached the conclusion that in an MLS transaction like this one the selling agent is a subagent of the sellers.”
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.