Kopf v. Milam’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably Krueger v. Bank of America (1983), 13 Cal. App. 4th 1589 - R. J. Kuhl Corp. v. Sullivan (1993)
35 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 20 Cal. 2d 751 - Universal Sales Corp. v. California Press Manufacturing Co. · McCluskey v. Ware · 136 Cal. App. 2d 567 - White v. Jones · 31 Cal. 2d 350 - Edwards v. Billow · Meyer v. Selggio
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a vendor enters a valid unconditional contract of sale with a purchaser procured by a broker, the purchaser’s acceptability is conclusively presumed because the vendor is estopped to deny the qualifications of a purchaser with whom he is willing to contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drake v. Hosley
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.