Combs v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1992
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 Murphy, Thompson & Co. v. Reed · Klatch v. Simpson · Walton's v. Franks
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.
“It is well settled that an option [to purchase real property] is not binding as a contract where there is no consideration unless it is accepted within the time limit and before the offer is withdrawn.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law * * * is well settled in this and in other jurisdictions to the effect that the offer, though without consideration, if accepted within the time limit and before withdrawal by the contemplated vendor, becomes obligatory upon all parties to the option after such acceptance, and it is thereafter supported by the consideration of mutual promises; i. e., the promise of the vendor to convey according to the terms of the option, and the promise of the vendee, issuing out of his acceptance, to accept the conveyance and otherwise comply with the terms of the option.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. McGregor
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.