Scott v. Patterson & Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably Blackwood v. Eads (1911), In the Matter of Steelship Corporation, Bankrupt. Vilas and Sommer Inc. v. Emon Mahony, Jr., Trustee (1978)
3 federal appellate · 37 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law is well established that, in a suit by a real estate agent for the amount of 'his commission, it is immaterial that the owner sold the property and concluded the bargain. ‘ If, after the property is placed in the agent’s hands, the sale is brought about or procured by his advertisement and exertions, he will be entitled to his commissions; or if the agent introduces the purchaser, or discloses his name to the seller, and through such introduction or disclosure negotiations are begun, and the sale of the property is effected, the agent is entitled to his commissions, though the sale may be made by the owner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Markham
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.