Attrill v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Turner v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (1960), 177 Md. App. 562 - Minh-Vu Hoang v. Hewitt Avenue Associates, LLC (2007)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is, that the broker is not entitled to his commissions till the work is complete; but, if after the sale is virtually effected, the principal takes the matter into his own hands, and revokes the agency, he cannot escape the payment of .commissions. In such cases, and there are many of them in the books, the broker is regarded as having earned his commission or compensation, by being the procuring cause of the transaction being consummated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.