Boozer v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably Lightsey v. Stone (1951), Fishkin v. Hi-Acres, Inc. (1975)
41 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 McFadden & Bro. v. Henderson · Ashurst v. Peck · Asbury v. Cochran · Bay Minette Land Co. v. Stapleton · Ex Parte Walter
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Here the status is similar to one where an owner agrees to sell all his property to another, and then in violation of his agreement sells to a third person with notice. The third person's interest is subject to divesture in the decree for specific performance. Matthews v. Bartee, 209 Ala. 25 , 95 So. 289 ; Forney v. City of Birmingham, 173 Ala. 1 , 55 So. 618 ; Bentley v. Barnes, 162 Ala. 524 , 50 So. 361 ."”
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.