Steele v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Friends University v. W. R. Grace & Co. (1980), Mohr v. State Bank of Stanley (1989)
2 federal appellate · 24 district · 48 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 Weil & Associates v. Urban Renewal Agency · Parsons Mobile Products., Inc. v. Remmert · Reznik v. McKee, Trustee · Landrum v. Taylor · Phillips & Easton Supply Co. v. Eleanor International, Inc.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To constitute a meeting of the minds there must be a fair understanding between the parties which normally accompanies mutual consent and the evidence must show with reasonable definiteness that the minds of the parties met upon the same matter and agreed upon the terms of the contract. (See 17 Am.Jur.2d, Contracts, §§ 18, 19, pp. 354, 355; 17 C.J.S., Contracts, § 31, p. 635.)" 220 Kan. at 428 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Points neither briefed nor argued on appeal will be deemed abandoned.”
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.