Elmen v. Winfield’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1992
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Crane v. Eddy · Cheek v. Nicholson · Willson v. Crawford · Adams v. Johnson · Branstetter v. Hook
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor can a broker be deprived of his commission by an agreement of cancellation or release made by the principal and the customer, unless the agreement is entered into at the broker’s request or with his consent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Carlson
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.