466 So. 2d 922 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2011
12 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 Lipscomb v. Tucker · Jones v. Jones · Heflin v. Milton · 410 So. 2d 889 - Thomas v. Davis · Houston v. McClure
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the following cases, every agreement is void unless such agreement or some note or memorandum thereof expressing the consideration is in writing and subscribed by the party to be charged therewith or some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorized in writing:”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the possession . . . could be accounted for just as well by some other right or title actually existing in the vendee's favor, or by some relation between him and the vendor other than the alleged oral contract, it is not such a possession as the doctrine requires.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“219 Ala. at 64, 121 So. at 78 . The Court went further in adopting the following excerpt:”
4 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.