Bledsoe v. Cargill, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Folmar v. Montgomery Fair Company, Inc. · Loveless v. Graddick · American Nat. Bank & Trust Co. v. Powell · Studdard v. South Central Bell Tel. Co. · Montgomery Bank & Trust Co. v. Jackson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A novation is the substitution of one contract for another, which extinguishes the pre-existing obligation and releases those bound thereunder. . . . In addition, the party alleging a novation has the burden of proving that such was the intention of the parties.”
2 later decisions 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.