Normile v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 108 N.C. App. 268 - Routh v. Snap-On Tools Corp. (1992), Chappell v. Roth (2001)
4 federal appellate · 72 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 Kidd v. Early · Howell v. Smith · Goeckel v. Stokely · Richardson v. Greensboro Warehouse & Storage Co. · Sandlin v. Weaver
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ssent ... requires an offer and acceptance in the exact terms.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““One of the essential elements of every contract is mutuality of agreement. There must be neither doubt nor difference between the parties. They must assent to the same thing in the same sense, and their minds must meet as to all the terms. If any portion of the proposed terms is not settled, or no mode agreed on by which they may be settled, there is no agreement.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . I agree that if [prospective purchaser] pays me nine hundred and ninety-five dollars prior to January 1, 1913, to convey to him all the timber and trees. . . .”
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.