Neely v. Denton’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1987
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Cowin v. Salmon · Bethea v. McCullough · Asbury v. Cochran · Spruiell v. STANDFORD · Johnson v. Maness
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An option, in its inception, `is neither a sale nor an agreement to sell. It is simply a contract by which the owner of property agrees with another, that he shall have the right to buy the property at a fixed price within a time certain. He does not sell his land; he does not then agree to sell it; but he does then sell something, viz.: the right or privilege to buy at the option or election of the other party.' Cowin v. Salmon, 244 Ala. 285 , 293, 13 So.2d 190, 196 ; Lauderdale Power Co. v. Perry, 202 Ala. 394, 395 , 80 So. 476 ; Bethea v. McCullough, 195 Ala. 480, 487 , 70 So. 680 ; Fulenwider v. Rowan, 136 Ala. 287, 303 , 34 So. 975 . But an option can be transformed into a mutually binding contract to sell and to buy by acceptance of the option. Asbury v. Cochran, 243 Ala. 281, 282, 283 , 9 So.2d 887 ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““§ 3. Certain contracts to be in writing, else void. — In the following cases, every agreement is void, unless such agreement, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, is in writing, and subscribed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorized in writing: *****:(< “(5) Every contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of any interest therein, except leases for a term not longer than one year, unless the purchase money, or a portion thereof be paid, and the purchaser be put in possession of the land by the seller.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurst v. Thomas
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.