490 So. 2d 549 - Morvant v. Arnoult’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2015
1 federal appellate · 6 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 475 So. 2d 756 - Quealy v. Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, Inc. · 406 So. 2d 276 - Kalmn, Inc. v. Empiregas Corp. · 335 So. 2d 37 - Rebman v. Reed · 69 So. 2d 592 - State Board of Medical Examiners v. McHenery · Daigle & Associates, Inc. v. Coleman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract to sell immovable property, to be enforceable, must be in writing and must be signed by the buyer and seller, and if an agent executes the contract on behalf of the buyer or the seller, the agent's authority must be express and in writing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although a principal can subsequently ratify an act of his agent, such ratification cannot take place where ... the agreement by its very terms expired prior to the ratification.”
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.