Northcutt v. McPherson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably United Properties Ltd. v. Walgreen Properties, Inc. (2003), Master Builders, Inc. v. Cabbell (1980)
2 district · 22 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 Malone v. Meres · Apodaca v. Hernandez · Smith v. Russ · Williams v. Sinclair Refining Co. · Monte v. Montalbano
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... An option is the right of the optionee to comply or not comply with the specific terms of the option, at the sole choice and election of the optionee, [citations omitted.] The necessity for unequivocal and unqualified expression of intention to exercise an option and affirmative performance of the expressed method of exercising it are well-established legal principles. [citations omitted.] The language of the agreement itself controls as to what act or acts constitute an election to exercise an option. [Emphasis added.]”
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.