Vander Heide v. Boke Ranch, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Dowling Family Partnership v. Midland Farms, LLC (2015), DeHaven v. Hall (2008)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Garrett v. BankWest, Inc. · City of Deadwood v. Summit, Inc. · Ziegler Furniture & Funeral Home, Inc. v. Cicmanec · Guthrie v. Hardy · Laden v. Atkeson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ontract interpretation is a question of law reviewable de novo.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'There must be mutual assent or a meeting of the minds on all essential elements or terms in order to form a binding contract.' Whether there is mutual assent is a fact question determined by the words and actions of the parties.”
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.