Satellite Development Co. v. Bernt’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2015
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Farmers Union Fidelity Insurance v. Farmers Union Co-operative Insurance · III Lounge, Inc. v. Gaines · III Lounge, Inc. v. Gaines · Horn v. Stuckey · RYBIN INVEST. CO., INC. v. Wade
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before a court may compel specific performance, there must be a showing that a valid, legally enforceable contract exists. The burden of proving a contract is on the party who seeks to compel specific performance. ... To establish a contract capable of specific enforcement it must be shown that there was a definite offer and an unconditional acceptance. . . . A party attempting to enforce a contract, therefore, has the burden of proving there was a definite offer and an unconditional acceptance. Furthermore, for a binding contract to result from an offer and acceptance, it is essential that the minds of the parties meet at every point. Nothing can be left open for farther arrangement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marten v. Staab
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.