Worms v. Burgess’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2017
5 federal appellate · 2 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 11 Cal. 3d 494 - Palo Alto Town & Country Village, Inc. v. Bbtc Company · Dick v. United States · 155 So. 2d 889 - Morrison v. Thoelke · Walker v. Telex Corp. · McAlister v. Kelein
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Consent is deemed to be fully communicated between the parties as soon as the party accepting a proposal has put his acceptance in the course of transmission to the proposer, in conformity to the last section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an acceptance under an option contract is not operative until received by the offeror”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the construction of an unambiguous contract is an issue of law for the courts”
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.