Croom v. . Lumber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Boyce v. McMahan (1974), 138 N.C. App. 582 - Miller v. Rose (2000)
40 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 Kirby v. Stokes County Board of Education · Hinnant v. Tidewater Power Co. · Owens v. Kelly · Goeckel v. Stokely · Coley v. . Dalrymple
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here must be neither doubt nor difference between the parties. They must assent to the same thing in the same sense, and their minds must meet as to all the terms. If any portion of the proposed terms is not settled, or no mode agreed on by which they may be settled, there is no agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A contract for service must be certain and definite as to the nature and extent of the service to be performed , the place where and the person to whom it is to be rendered, and the compensation to be paid , or it will not be enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.