Rogers v. Hendrix’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2005
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Ellsworth Dobbs, Inc. v. Johnson · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. English Construction Co. · W. C. Belcher Land Mortgage Co. v. Taylor · Maine v. Garvin · Big Butte Ranch, Inc. v. Grasmick
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a broker who has contracted with a prospective seller to procure a ready, willing and able purchaser for the sellers’ real property presents a buyer ready, willing and able to buy on terms listed by the seller with the broker or on other terms which the seller accepts, in the absence of special conditions in the broker’s employment contract, the broker is entitled to his commission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the parol evidence rule does not require exclusion of testimony where a written brokerage agreement itself is not complete and unambiguous as a statement of all the transaction's details.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Rehn
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.