Alexander v. Kirkham’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2016
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Jacobs v. Parodi · Hester v. Gatlin · Heisler v. Florida Mortgage Title & Bonding Co. · 336 So. 2d 393 - Dean v. Bennett M. Lifter, Inc. · 319 So. 2d 594 - Niagara Fire Insurance Co. v. Allied Electrical Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It must be pointed out that the defendants in this case were neither , parties to the release agreement, gave any consideration for it, or changed their position in any way in reliance ,: upon its terms. They simply seek to be the donee beneficiaries of an enormous benefit, freedom from tort liability, gratuitously placed in their laps through the inadvertence of third parties. On these facts, there is therefore no legal or equitable reason to interfere with the effectuation of the conceded intention of the parties to the agreement themselves.”
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.