Martin v. Basham’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2012
5 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 Auto Sales Co. v. Bland · R. E. Crummer & Co. v. Nuveen · Crews v. Sullivan · Danheiser v. Germania Savings Bank & Trust 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When time is not of the essence, an offer remains open for a reasonable time ... or for such time as the parties treat the offer as continuing.... If the parties so treat the offer and it is timely accepted, a settlement contract arises, and, depending upon which party made the offer, the consideration which supports the contract is either forbearance of the right to rely upon a favorable decision or forbearance of the right to pursue and appeal from an adverse decision.”
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.