Carr v. Duval’s Empirical Analysis
39 U.S. 77 · 1840
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1993 · most notably Minneapolis St Ry Co v. Columbus Rolling-Mill Co (1886), Hennessey v. Woolworth (1888)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 19 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
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is an undeniable principle of the law of contracts that an offer of a bargain by one person to another imposes no obligation upon the former until it 's accepted by the latter according to the terms in which the offer war, made. Any qualification of or departure from those terms invalidates the .offer, unless the same be agreed to by the person who made it. Until the terms of the agreement have received the assent of both parties, the negotiation is ojien and imposes no obligation upon either.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lacey v. Thomas““If it be doubtful whether an agreement has been concluded, or is a mere negotiation, chancery will not decree a specific performance.””
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.