Swift v. Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Rhode v. Gallat (1915), 13 Ark. App. 266 - Moeller v. Theis Realty, Inc. (1985)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 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 De Sollar v. Hanscome · Black v. Maddox · Dyer v. Duffy · Litz v. Goosling · Cazort & McGehee Co. v. Dunbar
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an option is not a sale. It is not a contract by which one agrees to sell and the other to buy. It is only an offer by one to sell within a limited time and a right acquired by the other to accept or reject such offer within such time. When this privilege is exercised by acceptance, then and not until then does it become a contract of sale.”
2 later decisions 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.