James v. Darby’s Empirical Analysis
100 F. 224 · 1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1967
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Minneapolis St Ry Co v. Columbus Rolling-Mill Co · Fire Ass'n of Philadelphia v. People of the State of New York · Kelsey v. Crowther · Weaver v. Burr · Harding v. Gibbs
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is unvarying, and 1:he authorities uniform, that in order to constitute an acceptance of an option, or an offer to sell, the accejitauce must be unconditional. There must be no new terms imposed, and no departure from ¡hose offered. ‘If to the acceptance a condition be affixed, or any modiiica-!ion or change in the offer be requested, by the party to whom the offer is nade, this, in law, constitutes a rejection of the offer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lacey v. Thomas
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.