McLoon v. McLoon’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2018
11 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 Shirk v. Loftis Bros. · Miller v. Watson · Irvin v. Locke · Ansley v. Hightower · Cummings v. Johnson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, tender is excused or waived where the seller, by conduct or declaration, proclaims that if a tender should be made, acceptance would be refused. The law does not require a futile tender or other useless act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`A petition for reformation of a written contract will lie where by mistake of the scrivener and by oversight of the parties, the writing does not embody or fully express the real contract of the parties.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Curry v. Curry“An offer to pay the purchase price on delivery of a properly executed deed is not an unconditional tender.”
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.