51 Cal. 2d 649 - Leonard v. Fallas’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably 11 Cal. 3d 963 - Blank v. Borden (1974), 22 Cal. App. 3d 721 - Santoro v. Carbone (1972)
3 federal appellate · 48 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 Coulter v. Howard · Kimmell v. Skelly · Twogood v. Monnette · 88 Cal. App. 2d 291 - Chamberlain v. Abeles · Fleming v. Dolfin
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a land owner has agreed to pay a real estate broker a commission in the event of a sale, "a sale" means "the making of an executory binding agreement by which the property is to be sold to the purchaser obtained by the broker." Applying the forgoing rules to the facts of the present case, it is evident that the property was sold "within 90 days after" the termination of the contract between plaintiff and defendant to a person "whose name" was registered with the defendant by plaintiff in writing before the termination of the contract. Therefore, pursuant to the terms of the contract, plaintiff was entitled to his broker's commission from defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is to be paid if the property is sold within a specified period to a person whose name is furnished to the owner by the broker, and the property is sold by the owner to such a party during the prescribed period, it is immaterial that the agent was not the procuring cause of the sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he parties to a broker's contract for the sale of real property are at liberty to make the compensation depend upon any lawful conditions they see fit to place therein. [Citations.]”
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.