Boyington v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 514 So. 2d 877 - Gaston v. Ames · 608 So. 2d 375 - TRANSAMERICA COM. FIN. v. AmSouth Bank · 454 So. 2d 496 - Berkel & Co. Contractors v. Providence Hosp. · 392 So. 2d 1177 - Cougar Min. Co. v. MINERAL LAND & MIN. CONSULT. INC. · Cooper v. Johnston
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Our supreme court has explained that " '[t]his statute has been interpreted to mean that "in contract cases, where an amount is certain or can be made certain as to damages at the time of breach, the amount may be increased by the addition of legal interest from that time until recovery." C. Gamble, Alabama Law of Damages , § 8-3 (2d. ed. 1988); citing Tennessee Coal, Iron & R. Co. v. Jourdan , 221 Ala. 106 , 128 So. 132 (1930) ; Jefferson County v. City of Birmingham , 235 Ala. 199 , 178 So. 226 (1938) ; Roe v. Baggett Transportation Co. , 326 F.2d 298 (5th Cir. 1963) ; and Belcher v. Birmingham Trust Nat'l Bank , 488 F.2d 474 (5th Cir. 1973).' "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Lapeyrouse Grain Corp. v. Tallant , 439 So.2d 105 , 112 (Ala. 1983) ; see also Jernigan v. Happoldt , 978 So.2d 764 , 767 (Ala. Civ. App. 2007) (awarding prejudgment interest on a judgment in favor of a contractor on his breach-of-contract claim for work performed and materials supplied to homeowners with whom he had a contract). However, Ballard misunderstands what is meant by”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"All contracts, express or implied, for the payment of money, or other thing, or for the performance of any act or duty bear interest from the day such money, or thing, estimating it at its money value, should have been paid, or such act, estimating the compensation therefor in money, performed."”
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.