Williams v. Engler’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 1995 · most notably Harp v. Gourley (1961), State ex rel. Magee v. Williams (1953)
4 federal appellate · 38 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 Snodgrass v. Turner Tourist Hotels, Inc. · Valdez v. Salazar · Chesher v. Shafter Lake Clay Co. · Epstein v. Waas · Payne v. Ponder
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This case presents no circumstances which would vary the general and quite universal rule that the broker has earned, and is entitled to, his commission, under the character of agreement here relied upon, when he has procured a purchaser who either consummates the purchase, or who is ready, able and willing to do so upon the terms given to the agent by the owner.” (quoting Williams v. Engler, 46 N.M. 454, 457 , 131 P.2d 267, 269 (1942) (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simmons v. Plummer
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.