Smith v. Cleveland’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2005
8 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 Forrester v. Granberry · Cay v. Ferrell
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have examined the record carefully and we find that the option was accepted by the appellants in compliance with all provisions of the option contract. We further find that the appellants notified the appellees within a reasonable time to furnish a deed to the appellants in order that the loan proceeds could be obtained and paid to the appellees. The option contract contained no provision for a time limitation within which payment would be made by the appellants to the appellees. Thus, either party could, within a reasonable time, offer to perform and call upon the other party to do so. Cay v. Ferrell , 239 Ala. 297 , 195 So. 224 ; Forrester v. Granberry , 211 Ala. 402 , 100 So. 551 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“appellants did not appear to have the necessary amount of money available to pay for the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.