Smith v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1953
1 district · 5 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A real estate broker undertaking to sell real estate of another earns nothing until he produces to the owner a customer willing and prepared to purchase and pay for the property at the price and on the terms given by the owner to the broker.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Granting all the competent testimony adduced by tbe plaintiff to be true, and drawing, all permissible inferences in bis favor, yet tbe evidence gives ground for surmise only.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The H. F. Dimmock
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.