Mills v. Brody’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2017
6 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 James v. Preston · 24 Utah 2d 39 - Coombs v. Ouzounian · Anderson v. Overland Park Credit Union · Ferris v. Jennings · LeBaron & Associates, Inc. v. Rebel Enterprises, 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ption agreements become bilateral contracts ... only upon exercise of the option in accordance with its terms.” Mills v. Brody, 929 P.2d 360 , 364 n. 1 (Utah Ct.App.1996); see also Equitable Life & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Ross, 849 P.2d 1187, 1192 (Utah Ct.App.1993) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Geisdorf v. Doughty“Where an option agreement contains the terms 'purchase' or 'buy, and particularly where no other mode of exercise is specified, courts have interpreted the agreement to require payment to exercise the option.”
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.