20 So. 2d 24 - Shapiro v. Kimbrough’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1984
6 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 Stevenson v. Brown · Ragsdale v. Ragsdale · Adler v. Adler · Johnson v. Bloodworth · Canal Bank v. Copeland
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Strictly speaking, it is not a question of the ranking of privileges with which we are concerned in this suit. It is rather with the right of a seller to have a sale dissolved and the property restored to him in the face of existing encumbrances recorded against the purchaser after the sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘it is impossible to confound the resolutory condition with the vendor’s privilege. The former is not a mere appendage of the latter — it is a distinct substantive, and independent right or remedy ’”
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.