Compton v. Alcorn’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Luppold v. Lewis (1977), Weinberg v. Farmers State Bank of Worden (1988)
30 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 Crncevich v. Georgetown Recreation Corporation · Timmerman v. Gabriel · Stromberg v. Seaton Ranch Company · Johnson v. Meiers · Nadeau v. Texas Company
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[w]henever, by virtue of the provisions of any contract . . . one party to such contract . . . has an express right to recover attorney fees from any other party to the contract... in the event the party having the right shall bring an action upon the contract. . . then in any action on such contract... all parties to the contract. . . shall be deemed to have the same right to recover attorney fees and the prevailing party in any such action, whether by virtue of the express contractual right or by virtue of this section, shall be entitled to recover his reasonable attorney fees from the losing party or parties.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“so substantial and fundamental as to defeat the object of the parties in making the agreement.”
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.