Lacey v. Cardwell’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Hartzell Fan, Inc. v. Waco, Inc. (1998), Runion v. Helvestine (1998)
26 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 Spenard Plumbing & Heating Co. v. Wright · Green's Executors v. Smith · Bowles v. Rice · Townsend v. Stick · Stainback v. Read & Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It is elementary that mutuality of assent - the meeting of the minds of the parties - is an essential element of all contracts.'”
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.