Johnson v. Maness’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1962 · most notably Spruiell v. STANDFORD (1952), Hall v. Hall (1941)
29 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 Douglass v. Moody · Richardson v. Curlee · Peagler v. Stabler · Phillips v. Adams · Thompson v. New South Coal Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not incumbent on the pleader, however, to allege in his bill that the contract was in writing. This seems to be an exception to the general rule that the averments will, on demurrer, be construed most strongly against the pleader. The foundation for this exception is that the defense that an alleged contract is violative of the statute of frauds (Code 1923, § 8034) is a personal defense which must, ordinarily, be specially pleaded, or is waived. Such defense cannot be presented by demurrer unless it affirmatively appears on the face of the pleading that the contract was oral, or was otherwise void under the statute of frauds. Phillips v. Adams, 70 Ala. 373 ; Martin v. Wharton, 38 Ala. 637 ; Thompson v. New South Coal Company et al., 135 Ala. 630 , 34 So. 31 , 62 L.R.A. 551 , 93 Am.St.Rep. 49 ; 13 Alabama and Southern Digest, pages 547-550, «=»146-150.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neely v. Denton
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.