116 Cal. App. 170 - Tufts v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Hayes v. Muller (1963), 28 Cal. 2d 214 - Rattray v. Scudder (1946)
28 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 Lomita Land and Water Co. v. Robinson · 43 Cal. App. 1 - Keyes v. Nims · Munson v. Fishburn · 42 Cal. App. 81 - Menefee v. Oxnam · Smith v. Blodget
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The plaintiffs, in effect, gave to the defendant an option for five days to endeavor to sell the block of land for whatever sum it could obtain, and upon whatever terms it might make, provided they should receive therefor the sum of $10,000, and agreed that defendant should have whatever sum it could realize therefor above that amount. The relation thus created between them was rather that of a vendor and purchaser under a contract of sale than one of principal and agent, and a sale by the defendant thereunder was in the capacity of a vendor upon its own account, and not for the account of the plaintiffs."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An option is' an agreement by which an owner invests another with the exclusive right to buy certain property at a stipulated price, within a limited time ... It is apparent that respondent held an option and right to purchase the property in question, and that such option was not merely a listing with authorization to sell the property as agent for the owner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Joint adventurers in the purchase and sale of property must act in the highest good faith toward each other and may not make any secret profits out of the transaction not shared by the others.”
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.