Cole v. Haynes’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2000
4 federal appellate · 8 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 Davis v. Heard
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the nature of a contract is an option or a bilateral obligation to purchase is to be determined not by the name which the parties have given it, but by the nature of the obligations which it imposes. There it appears that the general intention of the parties was to consummate a sale, that intention should be effectuated. The entire present instrument indicates that the parties thought that this was a contract to purchase and sell, creating mutual obligations on both parties.” Id. 62 So.2d at 780-781 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamilton v. Bradford
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.