Galbraith v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably United California Bank v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1983), Goodman v. Newzona Investment Co. (1966)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 Garver v. Thoman · S. H. Kress & Co. v. Evans · Commercial Standard Insurance Co. v. Cleveland · Clark v. Ellsworth · Fink v. Williamson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Provisions in exclusive listings whereby the owner ... agrees to pay a commission to the broker if the property is sold to one [with] whom the broker has had negotiations prior to the expiration of the listing have been enforced irrespective of the fact that the broker is not the effective, efficient and procuring cause of the sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.