Collier v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably First Virginia Bankshares v. Benson (1977), Ray v. Montgomery (1980)
6 federal appellate · 61 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 Mudd v. Lanier · Alabama-Tennessee Natural Gas Co. v. City of Huntsville · King v. Capitol Amusement Co. · St. Clair Industries, Inc. v. Harmon's Pipe & Fitting Co. · Joseph v. Hopkins
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the parties reduce their agreements to writing, the writing-in the absence of mistake or fraud or ambiguity-is the sole expositor of the transaction and the intention of the parties. Joseph v. Hopkins, 276 Ala. 18, 158 So.2d 660 (1963),”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is a presumption in favor of the findings of fact of the trial court where testimony is [presented] ore tenus. However, such a presumption does not exist where the trial court erroneously applies the principles of law involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no duty to disclose exists when information is not requested and . . . mere silence is then not a fraud.”
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.