132 W. Va. 307 - Hartmann v. Windsor Hotel Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2006
6 federal appellate · 15 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 99 W. Va. 277 - State Ex Rel. West Virginia Sand & Gravel Co. v. Royal Indemnity Co. · King v. Scott · 90 W. Va. 397 - Petty v. Warren · 106 W. Va. 559 - State Ex Rel. Appaline Oil Co. v. Arthur · 116 W. Va. 16 - Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. Smith
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The undersigned hereby offers to purchase the Windsor Hotel property, including all buildings, equipment, furniture, furnishings and personal property of every kind, nature and description contained in said buildings or used in the operation of said hotel property or any of the leased portions thereof for the sum of Three Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($315,-000.00). “In connection with said purchase, you will pay a brokerage commission of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) to Charles Hartmann, of Wheeling, West Virginia, which is the full and complete brokerage commission in connection with the sale of this property; should said brokerage commission exceed the sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) the undersigned will pay any excess. “This offer shall be open for acceptance by you subject to the terms of that certain lease dated the 31st day of May, 1940, by August 1, 1946, and shall be subject to complete acceptance by you on or before August 15, 1946; otherwise, at the option of the undersigned, said offer shall become null and void and the earnest money tendered herewith shall be forthwith returned to the undersigned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This is to notify you that Vernon B.. Derrick-son, lessee of the Windsor Hotel, in this City, whose Lease is dated May 31, 1940, has elected to purchase all of the property of The Windsor Hotel Company under the same terms and conditions of your offer dated July 9, 1946, and, as you know, Vernon B. Derrickson, as lessee, has that right and privilege under the terms of his said Lease. “This Company, therefore, advises you that it cannot make complete acceptance of your offer and, under the circumstances, must accept the offer of Vernon B. Derrickson. Mr. Derrickson has been advised of the acceptance of his offer and you are now at liberty to withdraw the earnest money of $10,000.00 deposited by you with ■the Half Dollar Trust & Savings Bank, of this City.” -”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is agreed by the parties hereto that should the-lessor receive-a bona fide offer for the purpose [sic.] (purchase) of the property hereby leased at any time during the term of this lease, then said offer shall be immediately communicated to the lessee and the lessee shall have thirty (30) days in which he may purchase said property under the terms and conditions contained in said offer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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