Nolan v. Lunsford’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2016
4 federal appellate · 8 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 Emigrant Company v. County of Adams · Glass v. Craig · Walker v. Close · Sun City Holding Company v. Schoenfeld · Miami Bond Mtg. Co. v. Bell Et Ux.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule seems to be well settled that when covenants on the part of different parties to a contract are to be performed at different times or when covenants to make improvements are independent of covenants to purchase, or when a covenant goes only to part of the consideration on both sides and a breach of such covenant may be compensated in damages and will not defeat the purpose of the contract, the covenant is independent and an action at law may be maintained for its breach by the party or parties interested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An independent covenant is one which goes only to a part of the consideration on both sides and a breach of which may be paid for in damages . . . “In determining whether covenants are dependent or not, the intention of the parties is sought for and regarded in the light of all the circumstances evidenced by the contract. The court will consider whether the acts contemplated by the covenants are subordinate and incidental or whether they go to the entire consideration ...” Nolan, 196 So. at 197 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reinke v. Biegel
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.