Hart v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 1993 · most notably Livingston v. Malever (1931), 397 So. 2d 1171 - Fernandez v. Vazquez (1981)
2 federal appellate · 45 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 Napoleon Dotson v. William a Milliken · Walker and McClelland v. Chancey · R. J. & B. F. Camp Lumber Co. v. Tedder · State ex rel. Loftin v. McMillan · Hutchins & Co. v. Sherman
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule, where a broker finds a customer able and willing to enter into a transaction on the terms proposed by the principal, he cannot, unless there is a special contract to the contrary, be deprived of his right to his commissions by reason of the transaction failing on account of some fault of the principal, such as by the principal refusing to complete the transaction, as where he refuses to complete a sale, purchase, exchange, or loan, unless he has good grounds for his refusal. But to entitle a broker to a commission for negotiating a transaction which failed of consummation, the failure must be due to the refusal or default of the principal, and not to some fault of the broker.””
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.