Roper v. Clanton’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2021
4 federal appellate · 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 Faire v. Burke · Southern Traction Co. v. Wilson · 232 Mo. App. 1204 - McClintock v. Skelly Oil Co. · Mills v. Latham · Hastings v. Hudson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[M]eeting of the minds is to be determined by the expressed, and not by the secret, intention of the parties.'* * * 'If [one's] words or acts * * * manifest an intention to agree * * * it is immaterial what may be the real but unexpressed state of his mind on the subject.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If ... words or acts judged by a reasonable standard manifest an intention to agree in regard to a matter in question, that agreement is established, and it is immaterial what may be the real but unexpressed state of ... mind on the subject.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A contractual relationship may be established without a written contract where the circumstances and the acts and conduct of the parties support a reasonable inference of a mutual understanding and agreement that one party perform and that the other compensate for such performance_ The agreement between the parties arises from their intention, implied or presumed from their acts, where there are circumstances which, according to the common course of dealing and the common understanding of men, show a mutual intent to contract.””
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.