Shirley v. Van Every’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2006
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Grafton v. . Moir · Hurt v. Jones · Skeen v. Clinchfield Coal Corp. · Scott v. Albemarle Horse Show Ass'n · Turner & Happersett v. Hall & Connor
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An option ... is a contract by which the owner of property agrees with another that he shall have the right to purchase the same at a fixed price within a certain time. It is in legal effect an offer to sell, coupled with an agreement to hold the offer open for acceptance for the time specified, such agreement being supported by a valuable consideration ... so that it constitutes a binding and irrevocable contract to sell if the other party shall elect to purchase within the time specified.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Laches is such neglect or omission to do what one should do as warrants the presumption that he has abandoned his claim, and declines to assert his right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.