Rules v. Sturn’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2011
15 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 Continental Insurance Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Tsakres v. Owens · Macris v. Sociedad Maritima San Nicolas, S.A.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At any time more than 10 days before the trial begins, either ... party ... may serve upon the adverse party an offer to allow judgment to be entered in complete satisfaction of the claim.... The offer may not be revoked in the 10 day period following service of the offer. If within 10 days after service of the offer the adverse party serves written notice thai the offer is accepted, either party may then file the offer and notice of acceptance together with proof of service, and the clerk shall enter judgment. An offer not accepted within 10 days is considered withdrawn.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the [offeror]'s offer of judgment mentions nothing about advance payments made or about offsetting them against any part of the offer, and that the offer does not otherwise indicate an intent by the offerors to offset payments already made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It requires stating that appellant’s post-offer communication was not effective to change the meaning of the offer. As we explain later, an offer of judgment once made is irrevocable for ten days and is thus much like an option one has paid for. Since this is so the extrinsic circumstances to which one can refer to determine the meaning of the offer should be those existing at the time the offer is made. The offeror cannot make the offer and later be heard to say that term A actually means B, anymore than an op-tionee can sell an option and later make an assertion before it is exercised....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LaPerriere v. Shrum
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.