Polhamus v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1995
1 federal appellate · 22 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 Burton v. United States · William Tayloe v. The Merchants' Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore · Minneapolis St Ry Co v. Columbus Rolling-Mill Co · Iselin v. United States · Shubert Theatrical Co. v. Rath
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An offer can be accepted only by the offeree. To constitute a valid contract, the minds of the parties must have met on the identity of the persons with whom they are dealing. Everyone has a right to select and determine with whom he will contract and another cannot be thrust upon him without his consent. It is immaterial whether the ■offerer had special reasons for contracting with the offeree rather than with someone else.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘An offeror is entitled to know in clear terms whether the offeree accepts his proposal. It is not enough that the words of a reply justify a probable inference of assent.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[f]or there to be a contract, the offer must be accepted unconditionally and unqualifiedly by the offeree. The acceptance must be to all terms.”
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.