Weaver v. Burr’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Barrett v. McAllister (1890), Dyer v. Duffy (1894)
6 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Eliason v. Henshaw · Chicago & Great Eastern Railway Co. v. Dane · Mactier's Administrators v. Frith · Reynolds v. Tompkins · Gaylord, Son & Co. v. M. Imhoff & Co.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since an offer is not a contract, the party making it may withdraw it at any time before acceptance. Even though it is in writing, and by its terms is to stand open for a specified period, the result is the same. With no money consideration, and no corresponding promise from the person to whom it is made, the promise not to withdraw it has no binding force. If a consideration for the undertaking to leave the offer open is given and accepted, this of itself constitutes a contract, and the offer cannot be withdrawn.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Couch v. McCoy
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.