Lloyd v. . Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently January 1985 · most notably Sibbald v. . the Bethlehem Iron Company (1881), Handley v. Shaffer (1912)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is sufficient to entitle a broker to compensation that the sale-is effected through his agency as its procuring cause; and if his communications with the purchaser were the cause or means of bringing him and the owner together, and the sale resulted in consequence thereof, the broker is entitled to recover.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Plant v. Thompson““This statement the court held was sufficient to warrant the conclusion.' that he authorized them to find a purchaser, and report to him for the purpose of consulting in reference to and agreeing on the terms of sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Douglass v. Halstead
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.