94 So. 2d 362 - Estes v. Moylan’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2017
19 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 Taylor v. Dorsey · 76 So. 2d 879 - Shuler v. Allen · City Builders Finance Co. v. Stahl · Dancy v. Baker · 52 So. 2d 903 - Katz v. Bear
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the broker has brought the parties together and a sale is effected as a result of continuous negotiations inaugurated by him, he will not be defeated in his effort to recover compensation simply because of a variation between the original terms stated by the owner and those finally accepted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Courts are not disposed to allow a real estate broker’s undertaking, in process of accomplishment, to be defeated by fraud or inequitable conduct on the part of his principal whereby the principal would profit by the broker’s service and at the time evade a just liability to make due compensation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * without prejudice to the right of Moylan to sue on an implied contract, if he deems such action advisable.”
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.