Moore v. Irwin’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably Casey v. Hart Wallace & Co. (1920), Oregon Home Builders v. Montgomery Inv. Co. (1919)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Glentworth v. Luther · Rice v. Mayo · Pinkerton v. Hudson · Boysen v. Frink · Louisiana Molasses Co. v. Fort Smith Wholesale Grocery Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The broker, having presented a proposed purchaser who is capable of entering into a contract of purchase, and willing to do so, has earned his commission when the vendor accepts him and enters into a valid contract with him for the sale of the land, even though the sale is .never in fact consummated by reason of the failure of the proposed purchaser to perform his part of the contract.” Moore v. Irwin, supra.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . where a real estate broker contracts to produce a purchaser who shall actually buy, he has performed his contract by the production of one financially able, and with whom the owner actually makes an enforceable contract of sale. The failure to carry out that contract, even if the default be that of the purchaser, does not deprive the broker of his right to commissions.” ' .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holland v. Dietz
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.