Shayeb v. Holland’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Schwanbeck v. Federal-Mogul Corp. (1992), Lafayette Place Associates v. Boston Redevelopment Authority (1998)
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 46 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 Joy v. City of St Louis · Clark v. State Street Trust Co. · Ansorge v. Kane · Kennedy Bros. v. Bird · Atwood v. City of Boston
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A contract leaving the price of the land to a future agreement between the parties would be indefinite and incomplete and could not be enforced... . We think that the offer to sell in the present case should be reasonably understood to be an offer to sell for a fair and reasonable price. Otherwise the offer would have no practicable value but would be a mere illusion or perhaps a sham to the unwary."”
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.