Risk v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2006
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Burke v. Mead · Ikerd v. Beavers · Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Bodenschatz · Goodwine v. Morey · Waymire v. Waymire
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.
““A court may not make a contract for the parties. It may not substitute its own ideas for any of the terms or conditions of a contract. “The evidence is undisputed that the minds of the parties failed to meet on all details of any complete contract. It lacks certainty necessary for a complete meeting of the minds of the parties. The attorneys for each considered the memorandum when first drawn only as a start or beginning for a contract — not one that was completed.” Risk v. Thompson (1958), 237 Ind. 642, at 652-53 , 147 N.E.2d 540, at 545-46 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . The parties recognized the consent of Underwood as a factor in the final agreement yet to be agreed upon. The court has no right to determine whether the parties desired this consent or did not desire this consent. It was left undetermined by the parties. Parties may agree with certainty on certain parts of a contract and leave other parts or items to be completed. Until all particulars are agreed upon there is no contract even though a court may feel such incomplete items are not important or desirable.” (Our emphasis.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of being specifically enforced and of such nature the court can decree its complete performance against both parties without adding to its terms.”
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.