Mehlberg v. Redlin’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A number of the cases digested in 34 Words and Phrases, phrase the definition of ‘procuring cause’ substantially in terms as one originating a series of events which without break in their continuity, result in the accomplishment of the prime object of the broker’s employment.” “The Restatement employs the phrase ‘effective cause’ and states, ‘An agent is an ‘effective cause’ as that phrase is used in this Section, when his efforts have been sufficiently important in achieving a result for the accomplishment of which the principal has promised to pay him, so that it is just that the principal should pay the promised compensation to him.” Mehlberg v. Redlin, 77 S.D. 586 , 96 N.W.2d 399 , 401 (1959).”

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