Master Builders, Inc. v. Cabbell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Stueber v. Pickard (1991), United Properties Ltd. v. Walgreen Properties, Inc. (2003)
4 district · 32 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 13 Cal. 3d 684 - County of San Diego v. Miller · Schultz & Lindsay Construction Co. v. State · Jernigan v. New Amsterdam Casualty Company · Morris v. Goldthorp · Iriart v. Johnson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is elementary that where one party gives an option to another, the acceptance, to be valid so as to conclude an agreement or contract between the parties, must, in every respect, meet and correspond with the offer, neither falling short of, nor going beyond, the terms proposed but exactly meeting them at all points and closing with them just as they stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unequivocal and unqualified expression of intention to exercise an option and [the] affirmative performance of the expressed method of exercising [an option]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When the option is exercised, the contract becomes bilateral and binds both parties and is enforceable at the instant of either party.”
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.