Garrett v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2006
14 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 Chamberlain v. Grisham · 31 Tenn. App. 490 - Hutchinson v. Dobson-Bainbridge Realty Co. · Lambert v. Haskins · Jahn v. Park Hill Realty Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This rule avoids hardship to the offeree, and yet does not hold the offeror beyond the terms of his promise. It is true by such terms he was to be bound only if the requested act was done; but this implies that he will let it be done, that he will keep his offer open till the offeree who has begun can finish doing it. At least this is so where the doing of it will necessarily require time and expense. In such a case it is but just to hold that the offeree’s part performance furnishes the ‘acceptance’ and the ‘consideration’ for a binding subsidiary promise not to revoke the offer, or turns the offer into a presently binding contract conditional upon the offeree’s full performance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marchiondo v. Scheck“Paragraph 1 of the contract here provides: Agreement. Seller and Brokerage Firm enter into this contract as of the date set forth above. However, this Contract shall apply only to a Sale of the Property by Broker during the Listing Period ... or upon Broker procuring a buyer who is ready, willing and able to complete the Sale as proposed by Seller (collectively, Broker Sale). In the ease of any other Sale, this Listing Contract is null and void and of no effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A greater number of courts, however, hold that part performance of the consideration may make such an offer irrevocable and that where the offeree or broker manifests his assent to the offer by entering upon performance and spending time and money in his efforts to perform, then the offer becomes irrevocable during the time stated and binding upon the principal according to its terms. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marchiondo v. Scheck
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.