Jones v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2009
8 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 Hobbs v. Massasoit Whip Co. · Dudley v. Adams · Southern Pub. Ass'n v. Clements Paper Co. · Terral v. Poe · T.I.M.E. Freight, Inc. v. McNew
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Justice Holmes put his finger on the point in Hobbs v. Massasoit Whip Co., 158 Mass. 194 , 33 N.E. 495 (1893). There the plaintiff, a trapper, had sent eel skins to the | (¡defendant, a manufacturing company, on four or five occasions. Although there was no contract between the two the defendant had accepted and paid for the skins. The litigation arose when the defendant received another batch of skins and kept them for some time before they were destroyed. In holding that the manufacturer was bound by contract to pay for the skins the court summarized the law in a sentence: “The proposition stands on the general principle that conduct which imports acceptance or assent is acceptance or assent, in the view of the law whatever may have been the actual state of mind of the party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.