Mann v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2009
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Webster Lumber Co. v. Lincoln · Dunham v. State · 79 So. 2d 426 - Clark v. Clark · Strong & Trowbridge Co. v. H. Baars & Co. · Miller v. Murray
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as any essential matters remain open for further consideration, there is no completed contract. In order to create a contract it is essential that there be reciprocal assent to a certain and definite proposition.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Specific performance of a contract will not be enforced unless the agreement is clearly established. To enforce performance of a parol contract to lease land, the agreement must be established by more than a mere preponderance of the evidence. Even where the terms of the contract are clear, certain, and unambiguous, specific performance is not a matter of right, but rests in the sound discretion of the court to be determined from all the facts and circumstances . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Chancellor who had the exclusive privilege of viewing the witnesses found no intention ... to consummate the alleged agreement before all the terms and conditions had been fully determined and formalized in an appropriately executed written document.”
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.