Colburn v. Seymour’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 1974
13 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 · Mattingly v. Pennie · Wilson v. Mason · Duclos v. . Cunningham · McFarland v. Lillard
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * When a sale does not actually take place, * * * he (the broker) cannot recover commissions unless he shows that he procured and produced to his principal a person ready, willing and able to purchase the property upon the terms and conditions under which he was authorized to negotiate a sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crampton v. Irwin
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.