Dickey v. Hurd’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.2d 415 · 1929
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1998
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Morgan's heirs v. Morgan · Patrick v. Bowman · Perry v. Dwelling-House Insurance · Brauer v. Shaw · Busher v. New York Life Insurance
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where parties are at distance from one another, and an offer is sent by mail, it is universally held in this country that the reply accepting the offer may be sent through the same medium, and, if it is so sent, the contract will be complete when the acceptance is mailed, ... and beyond the acceptor’s control; the theory being that, when one makes an offer through the mail, he authorizes the acceptance to be made through the same medium, and constitutes that medium his agent to receive his acceptance; that the acceptance, when mailed, is then constructively communicated to the offeror. [Dickey v. Hurd, 33 F.2d 415, 417 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 280 U.S. 601 , 50 S.Ct 82 , 74 L.Ed. 646 (1929) (emphasis added).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Okosa v. Hall“When Mr. Hurd received these communications, he was fully apprised of how Mr. Dickey understood the language of his offer, and, if that was not the meaning which he intended to give to it, it was his duty to have at once informed him____ It was not open to him to lie quietly until after the time of acceptance had expired and then say ... you have not met the requirements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.