McClendon v. Eubanks’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 1983
24 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 Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. Lovejoy · Moore v. Williamson · Lawall v. Groman · McFadden & Bro. v. Henderson · Comer v. Bankhead
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “ . . . . It is true that where an agreement has been modified by subsequent agreement, the plaintiff should declare on the agreement as modified. 13 C.J. § 83S, p. 721. See also 17 C.J.S. Contracts § 535.....” McClendon v. Eubanks, 249 Ala. 170, 177 , 30 So.2d 261 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the language of the contract is not plain and unambiguous, then parol evidence is admissible to aid in interpretation of the contract”
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.