McGavock v. Woodlief’s Empirical Analysis
61 U.S. 221 · 1857
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Fitzpatrick v. Gilson (1900), Crowe v. Trickey (1907)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 25 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.
Relationships
Relies on Elizabeth Moore v. Ray Greene
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'“The broker must complete the sale; that is, he must find a purchaser in a situation and ready aud willing to complete the purchase on the terms .agreed on, before he is entitled to his commissions. Then he will be entitled to them, though the vendor refuse to go on and perfect the sale.””
3 later decisions 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.