ASPINWALL v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2008
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Charles Taylor v. Thomas Burns a S R · McCabe v. Matthews · Losei Realty Corp. v. City of New York · Strong v. Moore · Clarno v. Grayson
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.
“The $100.00 payment was not intended as consideration for the option. It was simply an advance payment on the purchase price. To constitute a valid option, there must be a valuable consideration therefor apart from the consideration for the sale. If there is none, the option is in effect a mere offer, and may be withdrawn at any time before acceptance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mclamb v. T.P. Inc.“Before the optionee may bring a suit for specific performance he must clearly, explicitly, and unequivocally, within the time specified, communicate to the optionor his acceptance of the offer contained in the option.”
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.