Zeller v. Chipman’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Garza v. Alviar · Air Conditioning Inc. v. Harrison - Wilson - Pearson · Goodwin v. Gunter · Wilson v. Giraud · Chemical Cleaning, Inc. v. Chemical Cleaning & Equipment Service, Inc.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[S]uch act or acts, if any, in bringing the buyers and sellers together in connection with the sale of the property in question which so far constructed to bringing about the sale that but for such act or acts ... the sale would not have been consummated." (Emphasis added) Zeller v. Chipman, 474 S.W.2d at 755 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramesh v. Johnson““that cause which in a natural and continued sequence, unbroken by any new independent intervening cause, produces the event without which it would not have occurred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramesh v. Johnson
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.