May v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably In Re Amerco Derivative Litigation (2011), Certified Fire Protection, Inc. v. Precision Construction, Inc. (2012)
4 federal appellate · 12 district · 50 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 Chappell v. Roth · Sandy Valley Associates v. Sky Ranch Estates Owners Ass'n · Doi v. Halekulani Corp. · Grand Hotel Gift Shop v. Granite State Insurance · 95 Cal. App. 2d 503 - Ghiringhelli v. Riboni
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an offer and acceptance, meeting of the minds, and consideration.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether the essential terms of a release are a material part of a settlement agreement, without which the settlement agreement is never formed, or whether the release's terms are inconsequential in determining whether the parties have reached a settlement agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“once a case has been filed in court, the bar to relitigating that case after an offer of judgment has been accepted does not depend on the terms of a release but rather on the claim preclusion effect of res judicata.”
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.