Peer v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1973
2 federal appellate · 15 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 52 Cal. App. 322 - Dillingham v. Dahlgren · St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Gorman · Shepard v. Carpenter · Sibley v. Felton
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The instruments sued on is what is known as an agreement to make an agreement. Such agreements are usually provisional or temporary, it being the intention at some later date to set out in a more formal way the terms and conditions of the proposed agreement. If all the conditions of the postponed agreement are specified in such agreement, it is an agreement in prœsenti. McKell v. Railway Co., 99 C. C. A. 109 ( 175 Fed. 321 , 20 Ann. Cas. 1097). Bnt where the conditions of the deferred contract are not set ont in the provisional one, or where material conditions are omitted, it is not a contract in press en-ti, because the minds have not met and may never meet.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““To be enforceable, a contract to enter into a future contract must specify all its material and essential terms and leave none to be agreed upon as the result of future negotiations.” 12 Am. Jur. p. 521 , §24.”
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.