Country Club Oil Co. v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Telex Corporation v. Data Products Corporation (1965), Desnick v. Mast (1976)
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 48 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 Ide v. Leiser · Vogt v. Ganlisle Holding Co. · Brown v. Eaton · Morgan v. Ibberson · Matteson v. United States & Canada Land Co.
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 68 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.“in the event of the failure of the plaintiff to exercise the option the $100 was to be forfeited. . . .”
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.