Atterbury v. Brison’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2013
1 federal appellate · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 76th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on In Re King's Estate · Cain v. Bain · McGalliard v. Kuhlmann · Anderson v. City of Seven Points · Havner v. E-Z Mart Stores, 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An option is unilateral. It imposes no liability on the optionee unless and until he exercises the option according to its terms. Acceptance of an option, unless excused on equitable grounds, must be unqualified, unambiguous, and strictly in accordance with its terms. Any failure to exercise an option according to its terms, including an untimely or defective acceptance, is simply ineffectual, and legally amounts to nothing more than a rejection. Consequently, an acceptance that does not comply with the option’s terms, unless it is accepted by the optionor, binds neither the optionee nor the optionor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Besteman v. Pitcock
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.