Olsson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 1983
23 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 Scheuer v. Britt · Montgomery Enterprises v. Empire Theater Co. · Merchants' Nat. Bank of Mobile v. Hubbard · Nettles v. Lichtman · Pollard v. Maddox
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`"It is only by the aid of parol evidence that courts can be certain what were the circumstances under which a contract was made; what was the relation of the parties, and what was within their mutual knowledge. * * * The evidence simply helps to a proper understanding of the words and stipulations of the writing." McGhee et al. v. Alexander, 104 Ala. 116, 121, 122 , 16 So. 148, 149 .' Olsson et al. v. Nelson, 248 Ala. 441, 445, 446 , 28 So.2d 186, 189 ."”
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.