Reynolds v. Maples’s Empirical Analysis
214 F.2d 395 · 1954
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably United Artists Corporation v. Masterpiece Productions, Inc., and Robert S. Benjamin, Arthur B. Krim, Seymour M. Peyser (1955), 161 F. Supp. 132 - United States v. Rogers & Rogers (1958)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Dyer v. MacDougall · Surkin v. Charteris · Smith County Oil Co. v. Jefcoat
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a continuing offer to sell which is irrevocable during the period specified therein. Until it is exercised it contains no elements of a sale. Such a contract is necessarily unilateral, since it binds the optionee to do nothing but grants him the right to accept the offer or not, as he may choose, within the time and manner specified.... It is incumbent upon the optionee to exercise his option in the manner provided in the contract and, unless such requirements are waived, his failure to do so, or his attempt to exercise it in another manner, is inoperative to form a binding contract for sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`It is incumbent upon the optionee to exercise the option in the manner provided in the contract and, unless such requirements are waived, his failure to do so, or his attempt to exercise it in another manner, is inoperative to form a binding contract. . . .' [quoting Reynolds v. Maples , 214 F.2d 395 , 398 (5th Cir.1954)].”
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.