Erich v. Granoff’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 128 Cal. App. 3d 240 - Hutton v. Gliksberg (1982), 48 Cal. 4th 411 - Steiner v. Thexton (2010)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 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 Ellis v. Mihelis · Berry v. Chaplin · 83 Cal. App. 3d 1 - Walters v. Marler · 11 Cal. 3d 494 - Palo Alto Town & Country Village, Inc. v. Bbtc Company · Beverage v. Canton Placer Mining Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n option may be viewed as a continuing, irrevocable offer to sell property to an optionee within the time constraints of the option contract and at the price set forth therein. It is, in other words, a unilateral contract under which the optionee, for consideration he has given, receives from the optioner the right and the power to create a contract of purchase during the life of the option. `An irrevocable option is a contract, made for consideration, to keep an offer open for a prescribed period.' [Citation.] An option is transformed into a contract of purchase and sale when there is an unconditional, unqualified acceptance by the optionee of the offer in harmony with the terms of the option and within the time span of the option contract. [Citation.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An award of attorney fees is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court and absent a manifest abuse of discretion the determination of the trial court will not be disturbed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“hindrance of the other party's performance operates to excuse that party's nonperformance.”
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.