Ford v. McGregor’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2008
7 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 Berry v. Frisbie · Litz v. Goosling · Klatch v. Simpson · McKnight v. Broadway Investment Co. · Combs v. Turner
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.
“Where the only consideration for the option is the obligation of the optionee to pay the stipulated purchase price of the property in case he elects to exercise the option and purchase the property, that is not a sufficient legal consideration for the option since the consideration for the option must be separate and distinct from the obligation of the optionee to pay the stipulated purchase price in case he elects to purchase the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mclamb v. T.P. Inc.“We think it is clear that there was no monetary consideration to support the option contract here involved. There was no money paid for the option itself. [A] $650 check [drawn by one of the parties] was simply an advance payment on the purchase price if the deal went through but, if not, to be refunded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mclamb v. T.P. Inc.“[A]n `option' without consideration can be withdrawn at any time before acceptance and . . . a refundable deposit which is simply an advance payment on the purchase price, if the sale of the real estate is ultimately consummated, does not constitute consideration for an irrevocable option.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mclamb v. T.P. Inc.
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.