Shanklin v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1994
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 Stevens v. Karr · Sutherland v. Davis · Odem Realty Company v. Dyer · Carter v. Hall & Martin · Casey v. Hart Wallace & 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We therefore come to these questions: (1) * * * (2) Can the contract be fairly construed to make the commission contingent on the receipt of sufficient proceeds by the seller from the buyer to pay for it? To answer either of these questions in the affirmative would repudiate the reasoning by which we have been forced to the conclusion that the word “sale” does not connote a completed transaction and that the brokers’ entitlement to the stipulated commission is not defeated by a failure of the buyer or seller to consummate his contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Venters“A real estate broker may earn his commission “either by producing a person who is not only then, but at all times, ready, able, and willing to pinchase the property on the prescribed terms, or by obtaining from the customer a binding contract which the landowner himself may enforce, in case of a breach or default in its terms.” (Emphasis by Shanklin court.) (Citations omitted.) In such cases the word “sale” is not construed as requiring consummation of the transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Venters““The judgment is reversed with directions to enter a new judgment in favor of the appellants in accordance with the prayer of the complaint.” Id., 431 S.W.2d 880 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shanklin v. Townsend
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.