Green's Executors v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2016
8 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 McMillan v. Mich. S. & N. I. R. R. · Dyer v. Duffy · Blossom v. . Dodd · Zimmer v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. · Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. Gorsuch
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is elementary that mutuality of assent—the meeting of the minds of the parties—is an essential element of all contracts, and, in order that this mutuality may exist, it is necessary that there be a proposal or offer on the part of one party and an acceptance on the part of the other. Both the offer and acceptance may be by word, act or conduct which evince the intention of the parties to contract, and that their minds have met may be shown by direct evidence of an actual agreement, or by indirect evidence of facts from which an agreement may be implied. [Citations omitted]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lacey v. Cardwell
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.