276 So. 2d 451 - Etheridge v. Ramzy’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2019
2 federal appellate · 13 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 65 Cal. 2d 396 - Coleman Engineering Co. v. North American Aviation, Inc. · Weil & Associates v. Urban Renewal Agency · Rubel, Executors v. Rubel · Russell v. Douglas · Hutton v. HUTTON, ETC.
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.
“[i]n order for a writing to be enforceable as a contract, agreement must be expressed as to all essential terms. If the document or contract that the parties agree to make is to contain any material term that is not already agreed on, no contract has yet been made; and the so-called contract to make a contract is not a contract at all.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A contract is sufficiently definite if it contains matter which would enable the court under proper rules of construction to ascertain its terms, including consideration of the general circumstances of the parties and if necessary relevant extrinsic evidence. Having found a contract to have been made, an agreement should not be frustrated where it is possible to reach a reasonable and fair result.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The elementary general rule, as frequently enunciated in reference to the enforcement of specific performance of contracts ... is that the contract must be specific and distinct in its terms, plain and definite in its meaning, and must show with certainty that the minds of the parties had met and mutually agreed as to all details upon the offer made upon the one hand and accepted upon the other. If any of these requirements be lacking, specific performance will not be decreed by a court of equity.”
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.