Sanders v. DeWitt’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2014
13 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 · Mississippi Woodworking Company v. Maher · Oster v. Rabeneau · 5 Wash. App. 887 - A.A.B. Electric, Inc. v. Stevenson Public School District No. 303 · Holliston Mills of Tennessee v. McGuffin
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether an unsigned writing constitutes a binding contract usually depends on the intention of the parties. The object of a signature is to show mutuality or assent which may be shown in other ways as, for example, by acts or conduct of the parties. 17 C.J.S., Contracts § 62, cited, Mabry v. Swift & Co., supra, 145 S.W.2d [163] 1.c. 166 [(Mo.App.1940)]. In this connection, a bid is no more than an offer to contract.” Sanders v. De-Witt, 579 S.W.2d 707, 711 (Mo.App.1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. O'Brien
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.