Compton v. Alabama Power Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1996
11 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 United States v. Grimaud · State v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Blue v. Beach · Parke v. Bradley · Mobile Life Insurance v. Randall
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This action is not for the breach of a contract, but for the breach of a duty owed by defendant to plaintiff. The contract alleged in the complaint is a matter of inducement only. Its office is to show a relationship between the parties out of which the duty in question arose. [Citation omitted.] "The negligence charged is with respect to acts already done, and it is immaterial whether or not the contract contemplated their performance within a year.... Hence the plea of the statute of frauds is not a valid defense to the action...."”
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.