153 So. 2d 51 - Baader v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2018
13 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 Holman v. Hollis · Green v. Frick · Fischer v. Wood · 43 So. 2d 343 - Posey v. Hunt Furniture Co.
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.
“"... We are inclined to the view that when the contract does not in terms make the maturing of the entire indebtedness optional with the payee, but does expressly provide that upon a default the entire sum should at once become due and collectible, such words should be given effect according to their plain import and the intent of the parties as expressed thereby. The decided cases which hold this view, it seems to us, are supported by the better reasoning. No doubt exists where the contract is clearly optional on the part of the creditor. But to hold that a contract is optional which by its express terms is plainly absolute is unwarranted by any known rule governing the construction of contracts."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Upon default in the payment of principal and/or interest due on any note, secured by said mortgage, all notes so secured and remaining unpaid shall forthwith be come due and payable notwithstanding their tenor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. Lincoln
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.