Watson v. Odell’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2009
10 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 Condict v. . Cowdrey · Dole v. Sherwood · Lindley v. Fay · 61 Tex. Civ. App. 481 - J. I. Case Threshing MacHine Co. v. Wright Hardware Co. · Karr v. Moffett
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This shows that in law this agreement is made upon a condition, and is dependent upon the performance of that condition, and if the condition is not complied with, no obligation thereunder arises and no rights thereunder attach. "The rule of law is that a broker is entitled to his commission when the minds of the parties have met on every material particular of the transaction. Here, in this case, however, the minds of the parties in regard to the transaction have never met, because the validity of the contract was made dependent upon the condition that the defendants' attorney approve of the contract. The defendants' attorney never approved of the contract. "In that event the contract and the whole transaction was *Page 132 to be null and void to the same effect as if no transaction whatsoever had been agreed upon and entered into between the parties. "For that reason the condition upon which the broker's commission depended and which entitled him in law to recover was never fulfilled, and he is not entitled to recover.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daly v. Dubitzky“Being dependent on the approval of the attorneys for the third parties to the contract, the triparty agreement was only tentative and conditional. It was not binding on the parties and was not carried into effect. The execution of such a contract does not give to the broker a right to compensation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daly v. Dubitzky““Under our statute, the plaintiff could recover a commission only by virtue of a contract. He could not recover as upon a quantum meruit. [Citing Case v. Ralph, supra].” (Italics added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baugh v. Darley
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.