96 Cal. App. 772 - Pray v. Anthony’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1988 · most notably Johnson v. Allen (1945), 105 Cal. App. 2d 663 - Baker v. Curtis (1951)
25 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 57 Cal. App. 1 - Sessions v. Pacific Improvement Co. · Russell v. Ramm · Toomy v. Dunphy · 78 Cal. App. 49 - Bail v. Glantz · 44 Cal. App. 516 - Goodrich v. Turney
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As uniformly held by numerous decisions in this state upon the subject, the essential part of a contract to employ a real estate broker, so far as the statute of frauds is concerned, is the matter of the employment and consequently need not describe the land specifically, if the terms of the employment can be made definite without it.”
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.