Chapin v. Cherry’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1974
14 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 Green v. Cole · Strange v. Crowley · Sutter v. Raeder · Mackie v. Mott · Hazell v. Clark
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And as held by this court in the case of Strange v. Crowley, 91 Mo. 287 , before a contract is completed or binding upon the parties thereto, there must have been a definite proposal made on the one hand, and an acceptance thereof on the other and that such acceptance must have been unequivocal, unconditional and without variance between it and the proposal made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Hall
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.