88 Ind. App. 5 - Kritz v. Moon’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1992
18 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 Arkansas Valley Smelting Co. v. Belden Mining Co. · Minneapolis St Ry Co v. Columbus Rolling-Mill Co · Rochester Lantern Co. v. Stiles & Parker Press Co. · Menger v. Ward · Boyden v. Hill
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract giving Edward B. Moon an option did not give him any title to the land, either legal or equitable, and his assignment of his rights under the contract passed no title to his assignee. Pollock v. Brookover (1906), 60 W. Va. 75 , 53 S. E. 795 , 6 L. R. A. (N. S.) 403; Rease v. Kittle (1904), 56 W. Va. 269 , 49 S. W. 150 . ‘An option is not an actual or existing contract for the sale of property. It is a proposition by one party, for a consideration, which must be accepted within the specified time, in the precise terms named, before it becomes a binding contract. If not so accepted, it does not become a contract, and the option is at an end.’ ...””
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.