Gilmore v. Letcher’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2018
8 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 Beets v. Tyler · Kershner v. Hurlburt · Barling v. Horn · New Haven Trap Rock Co. v. Tata · 19 La. App. 356 - Price v. Town of Ruston
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When plaintiffs exercised their option within the 15 day period, their acceptance completed a contract of sale between plaintiffs and [defendant]. From that point forward, it was too late for [defendant] to withdraw without plaintiffs' consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a conditional option under which the pre-emptioner has the right to purchase subject to some condition, the condition being generally (despite variation in phraseology) that the owner must first arrive at a decision to sell.”
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.