Alltel Corp. v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Asset Acceptance, LLC v. Newby (2014), Bank of the Ozarks Inc. v. Walker (2014)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 47 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 Hill v. Gateway 2000, Inc. · Crain Industries, Inc. v. Cass · Tinder v. Pinkerton Security · Showmethemoney Check Cashers, Inc. v. Williams · Williamson v. Sanofi Winthrop Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We keep in mind two legal principles when deciding whether a valid contract was entered into: (1) a court cannot make a contract for the parties but can only construe and enforce the contract that they have made; and if there is no meeting of the minds, there is no contract; and (2) it is well settled that in order to make a contract there must be a meeting of the minds as to all terms, using objective indicators. [All] parties must manifest assent to the particular terms of the contract ... For a party to assent to a contract, the terms of the contract must be effectively communicated.”
1 later decision 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.