Bratt v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 150 Wis. 2d 80 - U.S. Oil Co. v. Midwest Auto Care Services, Inc. (1989), Saviano v. Commissioner (1983)
41 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 Brandeis v. Neustadtl · Telford v. Frost · Kreutzer v. Lynch · Wall v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co. · Bolick v. Gallagher
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An option to purchase is a continuing promise or offer given by the landowner to sell real estate to another at a specified price within a specified period of time. Bratt v. Peterson, 31 Wis.2d 447, 451 , 143 N.W.2d 538 (1965).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Estoppel consists of action or nonaction on the part of the one against whom the estoppel is asserted . . . which induces reliance by another . . . either in the form of action or nonaction, to the detriment of the latter . . . .””
2 later decisions 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.