Bishop v. Norell’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2009
24 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 Olson v. Penkert · Young v. Bishop · Irving v. Goodimate Co. · Weiner v. Mullaney · 123 Ind. App. 609 - City of Gary v. Russell
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are fully satisfied that the general rule is that a writing or memorandum is ‘signed’ in accordance with the statute of frauds if it is signed by the person to be charged by any of the known modes of impressing a name on paper, namely, by writing, printing, lithographing, or other such mode, provided the same is done with the intention of signing. City of Gary v. Russell, 123 Ind. App. 609 , 112 N.E. 2d 872 ; Cummings v. Landes, 140 Iowa 80 , 117 N.W. 22 ; Weiner v. Mullaney, 59 Cal. App. 2d 620 , 140 P. 2d 704 ; Irving v. Goodimate Co., 320 Mass. 454 , 70 N.E. 2d 414 , 171 A.L.R. 326 ; Potter v. Richardson, 360 Mo. 661 , 230 S.W. 2d 672 ; In Re Deep River Nat. Bank, 73 Conn. 341 , 47 A. 675 .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is settled law that a broker, before he is entitled to his commission, must not only find a purchaser able, ready, and willing to buy, but upon the identical terms authorized by his principal. It is a rule of agency which admits of no exception, and courts do not hesitate to strictly enforce it. Any other course would open the door to fraud, and place the principal at the mercy of his agent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richards v. Simpson
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.