Staubus v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2006
6 federal appellate · 4 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 E. A. Strout Realty Agency, Inc. v. McKelvy · Holman v. Fincher · Mix v. Broyles
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.
“For a real estate broker's services to constitute the "procuring cause" of a sale, the broker's initial efforts in calling the prospective purchaser's attention to the property must have set in motion a series of events which, without break in continuity and without interruption in negotiations, eventually culminates in the sale.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.