Brown v. Gilpin’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1947
19 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 Duffy v. Hobson · McElwain v. Huston · Lindley v. Keim · Grant v. Ede · Haydock v. . Stow
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘“Most of the cases that seem to deny that power to contract follows from authority to sell in fact go no further than this: That communications from the owner to a real-estate broker with respect to the sale of lands will be regarded as giving the agent only the authority usually incident to-his employment — that is, to find a purchaser — unless a different intention is clearly shown; and- that no wider power than that is necessarily indicated by the use of the words ‘to sell’ or ‘to make a sale’ in describing the purpose for which the agent’s services are engaged, inasmuch as in common parlance ‘to sell’ is often used as meaning to negotiate or arrange for a sale and a sale is said to be made when its terms have been orally agreed upon.” (p. 782.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Corley v. Ehlers
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.