Watts v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2011
8 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 68 Cal. 2d 662 - Batson v. Strehlow · 163 Pa. Super. 635 - Alford v. Raschiatore · Barber's Super Markets, Inc. v. Stryker · Corson v. Keane · Baird v. Krancer
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person who simply brings two parties together in a real estate transaction must be licensed to sue for recovery of a commission. To rule otherwise would be to violate the clear intent of the Legislature in requiring that real estate brokers or salespersons be licensed. By requiring licensure, the Legislature intended that the real estate occupation be regulated. The Legislature intends to protect the public by requiring the [Commission] to evaluate the competence and moral character of persons in the real estate business through licensing and examination requirements. The Legislature ensures the furtherance of its purposes by prohibiting unlicensed persons acting as real estate brokers from maintaining an action to recover a commission. If we were to permit an unlicensed person who brings two parties together in a real estate transaction to recover a commission, we would in effect render the [Act] meaningless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No action for the collection of a commission or compensation earned by any person as a qualifying broker or an associate broker required to be licensed under the provisions of [the Act] shall be maintained in the courts of the state unless such person was a duly licensed qualifying broker or associate broker at the time the alleged cause of action arose.”
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.