Scott v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1958
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad v. People ex rel. Allen · Maclay v. Harvey
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The transaction was not a contract so long as anything remained to be done by one of the parties thereto. ‘The rule is necessarily universal that both must be bound or neither will be.’ (Bishop on Contracts, sec. 318.) The contract was only to be considered complete when the formal prepared agreement was signed by both parties. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““An acceptance must conform exactly to the offer, and if it contains new conditions there is no contract. (Maclay v. Harvey, 90 Ill. 525 ; Gradle v. Warner, 140 id. 123).””
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.