O'Bryan v. Linton’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1988
8 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 Moss v. Warns · Hays v. Goodman-Leonard Realty Co. · Lizana v. Brown Realty Co.
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.
“****** “. . .a party who gives a reason for his conduct on anything involved in a controversy cannot, after litigation has started, change his ground and put his conduct upon a different consideration ****** “So it is our conclusion that the defendant in this case could not plant his defense on objections which occurred to him after the suit was impending or brought, or which, if they had occurred to him, were not offered at the time the defendant refused to enter into the contract which had already been signed by the purchasers. “If any such exceptions to the sale were taken by the seller at the first opportunity they might then be obviated and the sale consummated so that the broker would not lose compensation for the services he had performed or be forced to sue for it.””
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.