Klatch v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably National Bank of Kentucky v. Louisville Trust Co. (1933), Farmers Bank & Trust Co. of Georgetown v. Willmott Hardwoods, Inc. (2005)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Campbell v. Preece · Duteil v. Mullens · Posey v. Kimsey · Murphy, Thompson & Co. v. Reed · Murray v. Boyd
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the sale of real estate the signature of the vendor is sufficient to bind him if the writing is delivered to and accepted by the vendee, and ... such acceptance by the latter need not be in writing, and, of course, no part of his acceptance is required to be signed or subscribed by him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law * * * is well settled in this and in other jurisdictions to the effect that the offer, though without consideration, if accepted within the time limit and before withdrawal by the contemplated vendor, becomes obligatory upon all parties to the option after such acceptance, and it is thereafter supported by the consideration of mutual promises; i. e., the promise of the vendor to convey according to the terms of the option, and the promise of the vendee, issuing out of his acceptance, to accept the conveyance and otherwise comply with the terms of the option.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. McGregor
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.