Hutton v. HUTTON, ETC.’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Mid-Continent Telephone Corp. v. Home Telephone Co. (1970), 375 So. 2d 1049 - Thomas v. Bailey (1979)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 In re Palliser · Rubel, Executors v. Rubel · 133 N.J. Eq. 408 - Martindell v. Fiduciary Counsel, Inc. · Palliser v. United States · 52 Wash. 2d 129 - Duprey v. Donahoe
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elementary general rule, as frequently enunciated in reference to the enforcement of specific performance of contracts, * * * is that the contract must be specific and distinct in its terms, plain and definite in its meaning, and must show with certainty that the minds of the parties had met and mutually agreed as to all its details upon the offer made upon the one hand and accepted upon the other. If any of these requisites be lacking, specific performance will not be decreed by a court of equity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is definitely settled that the words of a contract should be given a reasonable construction, and that court `must, if possible, ascertain and give effect to the mutual intention of the parties, so far as that may be done without contravention of legal principles.' See Rubel v. Rubel, 221 Miss. 848 , 75 So.2d 59, 65 , 47 A.L.R.2d 1410 , and the authorities there cited." 239 Miss. at 229-230 , 119 So.2d at 374 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““If an offer is accepted as made, the acceptance is not qualified or conditional because of the expression of a hope, request, or suggestion, or because of the insertion of an immaterial variation or condition.” 91 C.J.S. Vendor & Purchaser § 31b (4), p. 882. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ryan v. Glenn
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.