Watson v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. · Alabama City, G. & A. Ry. Co. v. Kyle · Mitchell v. Austin · Coles v. Allen, Freer & Illges · Douglass v. Branch Bank at Mobile
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a deed is inter partes, a stranger thereto cannot sue upon it. Douglass and Easton v. Branch Bank of Mobile, 19 Ala. 659 . Stated in a more general way, the rule is that one not a party to, or in privity with a contract, cannot sue for its breach. Land Title Guaranty Co. v. Lynchburg Foundry Co., 16 Ala.App. 568 , 80 So. 142 ; Alabama City G. and A. Ry. Co. v. Kyle, 202 Ala. 552 , 81 So. 54 ; and a stranger to a contract can take no advantage of a breach of any condition of the contract. Foster v. Sykes, 23 Ala. 796 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`privity' denotes mutual or successive relationship to the same right of property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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