Brown v. Fulford’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2002
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Zimmerman v. Hogg & Allen, Professional Ass'n · Moore v. Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. · Cline v. Cline · Bone International, Inc. v. Brooks · S & W Realty & Bonded Commercial Agency, Inc. v. Duckworth & Shelton, 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f any act of the broker in pursuance of his authority to find a purchaser is the initiating act which is the procuring cause of a sale ultimately made by the owner, the owner must pay the commission, provided the case is not taken out of the rule by the contract of employment.”
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.