Wilcher v. McGuire’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2010
10 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 Murphy v. Carron · Chouteau v. Goddin · Dunham v. Hartman · Drew v. John Deere Co. of Syracuse, 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The words ‘without reserve’ are words of art and mean that in making such an announcement the owner ‘enters into a collateral contract with all persons bidding at the auction that he will not withdraw the property from sale, regardless of how low the highest bid might be (citations omitted). Therefore, the highest bona fide bidder at an auction “without reserve” may insist that the property be sold to him or that the owner answer to him in damages (citations omitted).’ Drew v. John Deere Company of Syracuse, Inc., 19 A.D.2d 308 , 241 N.Y. S.2d 267, 269[1, 2] (1963). “Thus, in this case the plaintiffs argue that by stating all or part of the property would be sold on that day, the auctioneer was stating the sale was to be ‘without reserve’.” 537 S.W.2d at 846 . (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.