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← 240 Md. 603 - Barnes v. Euster

Barnes v. Euster’s Empirical Analysis

1965

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
3
states following
September 2020
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Traylor v. Grafton (1975), Shoreham Developers, Inc. v. Randolph Hills, Inc. (1967)

34 state decisions

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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 Griffith v. Scheungrab · Chapman v. Thomas · Doering v. Fields · Bluthenthal & Bickart v. May Advertising Co. · Allview Acres, Inc. v. Howard Investment Corp.

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““It is hornbook law that an offer of no specified duration must be accepted within a time reasonable under the circumstances or the offer will lapse and a subsequent attempt to accept will be of no effect. Restatement, Contracts § 40 (1932); 1 Corbin, Contracts § 36 (1963); 17 C.J.S. Contracts § 51 (1963); Van Camp Co. v. Smith, 101 Md. 565, 573 ; cf. Hagan v. Dundore, 185 Md. 86 ; and Chapman v. Thomas, 211 Md. 102 .” Id. at 607.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. ““Where a contractual duty is subject to a condition precedent, whether express or implied, there is no duty of performance and there can be no breach by nonperformance until the condition precedent is either performed or excused.” 219 Md. at 34 , 146 A. 2d at 868”
    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.