Acme Cigarette Services, Inc. v. Gallegos’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Lovelace Medical Center v. Mendez Ex Rel. Mendez (1991), Apodaca v. AAA Gas Co. (2003)
4 district · 34 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 Locke v. United States · Wolf v. Perry · Rutledge v. Johnson · 37 Colo. App. 516 - Comfort Homes, Inc. v. Peterson · El Dorado Ice & Planing Mill Co. v. Kinard
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A valid contract must possess mutuality of obligation. Mutuality means both sides must provide consideration. It is also elementary that a contract, which leaves it entirely optional with one of the parties to perform, is not founded on mutual promises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All the circumstances before it being considered”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jennings v. Gabaldon
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.