Stewart v. Mather’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 1977 · most notably Handley v. Shaffer (1912), 57 Cal. App. 1 - Sessions v. Pacific Improvement Co. (1922)
1 federal appellate · 57 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A broker whose undertaking merely is to find a purchaser at a price fixed by the seller, or at a price which shall be satisfactory to the seller when he and the purchaser meet, is in reality only a ‘middleman,’ whose duty is performed when the buyer and seller are brought together, and as to whom the policy of the law which excludes double compensation has been considered inapplicable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tasse v. Kindt
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.