Sizer v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1972
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Telford v. Frost · Wall v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co. · Williamson v. Neeves · Lamson v. Clarkson · Moore v. Smead
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘An option is, in a sense, a continuing offer of a contract; and, if the offeree decides to exercise his right to demand the conveyance or other act contemplated, he must signify that fact to the offerer.’ 21 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law (2d ed.), p. 930. “Such acceptance may be verbally given, as was done in the case at bar. Id. . . .” Sizer v. Clark (1903), 116 Wis. 534, 540 , 93 N. W. 539 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nethery v. Russell
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.