Finnerty v. Fritz’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably Glenn v. Rice (1917), Stortroen v. Beneficial Finance Co. (1987)
30 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 Rice v. Wood · Stewart v. Mather · Moses v. . Bierling · Scribner v. Collar · Raisin v. Clark
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But where an agent has produced a purchaser who is acceptable to the owner, and able and willing to purchase on terms satisfactory to the owner, he has performed his duty, and if from any failure of the owner to enter into a binding contract or to enforce a contract against the purchaser, the sale is not completed, the agent may recover his commissions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunifer v. Pascoe
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.