Bentz v. Eubanks’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1931
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An offer by one party assented to by the other will generally constitute a contract, but the assent must comprehend the whole of the proposition. It must be exactly equal to its extent and terms, and must not qualify them by any new matter; therefore a proposal to accept or an acceptance of an offer on terms varying from those proposed amounts to a rejection of the offer.” (p. 37.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hayes v. Possehl
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.