Progressive Construction Co. v. Thumm’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Allen v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1981), Dodge v. TRUSTEES OF RANDOLPH-MACON (2008)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Mullins v. Mingo Lime & Lumber Co. · Smith v. Farrell
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamental that no person may be subjected by law to a contractual obligation, unless the character of the obligation is definitely fixed by an express or implied agreement of the parties. In order to be binding, an agreement must be definite and certain as to its terms and requirements; it must identify the subject matter and spell out the essential commitments and agreements with respect thereto. * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Until the parties have a distinct intention common to both and without doubt or difference, there is a lack of mutual assent and, therefore, no contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Mazyck
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.