Dore v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The plaintiff first introduced the prospective purchaser to defendants, but he did nothing more. It was conclusively shown that Mr. Wilson, of the firm of Grinnell & Company, was the efficient cause of the sale, and there is no claim, or at least no evidence, that the defendants acted in bad faith with the plaintiff. The mere fact that the plaintiff first introduced the purchaser to the defendants is not a compliance with the contract to sell, where it is shown that the sale is made and closed by another agent with whom the property is also listed. In Frink v. Gilbert, 53 Wash. 392 , 101 Pac. 1088 , we said: “ ‘Where several brokers have the same property listed for sale, although each has contributed towards the result, the one whose effort was the efficient cause of the sale is entitled to recover the commission. The leading case upon this subject, and one most frequently cited and relied upon by the courts, is that of Vreeland v. Vetterlein, 33 N. J. 247, where the court said: “Where the property is openly put in the hands of more than one broker, each of such agents is aware that he is subject to the arts and chances of competition. If he finds a person who is likely to buy, and quits him without having effected a sale, he is aware that he runs the risk of such person falling under the influence of his competitor — and in such case he may lose his labor. This is a part of the inevitable risk of the business he has undertaken. . . . Now in this competition, the vendor of ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hege v. Voelker