Stamper v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1992
2 district · 6 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The option being a mere offer to sell, and the contract to keep the offer open for acceptance for six 'months being without substantial consideration, the appellees could withdraw the offer and repudiate it at any time, by conveying notice of their repudiation of it to the holder of it, before its acceptance, and thereafter the holder would be without authority to accept or exercise it.” ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindlay v. Raydure““This is no substantial consideration to support a contract giving one six months’ time in which to determine whether he will accept an offer to purchase 300 acres of land in a community where values are rising rapidly. It is merely nominal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindlay v. Raydure
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.