Egger v. Nesbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 1975 · most notably Anderson v. Stewart (1948), Coffman Industries, Inc. v. Gorman-Taber Co. (1975)
42 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 William Tayloe v. The Merchants' Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore · National Bank v. Hall · Green v. Cole · Jenness v. Mount Hope Iron Co. · Eads v. City of Carondelet
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In order that an acceptance may be operative, it must be unequivocal, imconditional, and without variance of any sort between it and the proposal, and it must be communicated to the other party without unreasonable delay. To constitute a valid contract, there must be a mutual assent of the parties thereto, and they must assent to the same thing in the same sense; therefore an absolute acceptance of a proposal, coupled with any qualification or condition, will not be regarded as a complete contract, because there at no time exists the prerequisite mutual assent to the same thing in the same sense.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Bills
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.