Albert v. Nixon’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1952
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 Hunter-Benn Co. Company v. Bassett Lumber Co. · Young v. Arntze & Bros. · Harris v. Johnson · Sewall v. Henry · Eagan Co. v. Johnson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Guntersville, Ala. 4/2/1926. “This agreement entered into between F. B. Albert party of the first part and Curtis Nixon party of the second part. “Party of the second part has purchased from party of the first part Ninety (90) acres of land for $1,105.00 said land is now under mortgage by party of the first part and party of first part has made party of second part a warranty deed to said land. “Party of the first part agrees to have record marked satisfied by April 1st, 1928 otherwise party of first part agrees to refund purchase price $1,105.00 with interest from date and pay for improvements put on said land by party of the second part, on April 1st, 1928, if said mortgage has not been satisfied and party of the second part agrees to furnish the party of the first part a warranty deed without any indebtedness against the said land made by the party of the second part. “Said land being in section ten and eleven of Township nine and range two east, lying and being in Marshall County, Alabama. “If party of the first part settles said mortgage and has mortgage record satisfied by April 1st, 1928 or before the above agreement shall be null and void, otherwise binding. “F. B. Albert. “Witness: J. P. Willis.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nixon v. Albert
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.