counter-offer
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 271 U.S. 136 - Iselin v. United States · 1926Most cited · 93 citing opinions
A proposal to accept, or an acceptance upon terms varying from those offered, is a rejection of the offer, and puts an end to the negotiation, unless the party who made the original offer renews it, or assents to the modification suggested.
How often courts cite the case defining “counter-offer”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “counter-offer” — 93 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.