Spinney v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Columbia Pictures Corp. v. DeToth (1945), Ellis v. Mihelis (1963)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 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 Ambler v. Whipple · Fuller v. Reed · Morrill v. Tehama Consolidated Mill & Mining Co. · Northam v. Gordon
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a general rule, to which this case presents no exception, that, when it is a part of the understanding between the parties that the terms of the contract are to be reduced to writing and signed by the parties, the assent to its terms must be evidenced in the manner agreed upon, or it does not become a binding or complete contract. This is essentially true when as here the proposed contract contains reciprocal stipulations and covenants upon the part of each as a consideration for the acts of the other.” '(Citing cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The court instructs the jury that, if you believe from the evidence in this case that it was the intention of the plaintiff and defendant, in their negotiations respecting the contract for staves, that it was to be reduced to writing and signed by both parties before it became a binding contract, then you will find for the" defendant.””
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.