Minsky's Follies of Florida, Inc. v. Sennes’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.2d 1 · 1953
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Wilson v. American Chain & Cable Co. (1966), Trollope v. Koerner (1970)
12 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 St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Smithers v. Smith · Kirby v. American Soda Fountain Co. · Webster Lumber Co. v. Lincoln · Williams v. Bailey
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order that there be a contract, the parties must have a definite and distinct intention, common to both, and without doubt or difference. Until all understand alike, there can be no assent, and therefore no contract. Both parties must assent to the same thing in the same sense, and their minds must meet as to all the terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the expenditures also benefited the plaintiff, that would not relieve the defendant of his obligation to pay which the law casts upon him, although that might be a matter to be considered in reduction of damages.”
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.