Harrison v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 1961
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Duclos v. Turner · Boynton Land & Lumber Co. v. Dye
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The applicable legal principle is elementary. A party who has the option to perform cannot insist that the other party shall do so. Where it appears that one party was never bound on his part to do the act which forms the consideration for the promise of the other, the agreement is void for the lack of mutuality.””
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.