492 So. 2d 1021 - Austin v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2007
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Butler v. Michigan Mut. Ins. Co. · Bradford v. Kelly · State v. Curran · Craft v. Standard Acc. Ins. Co. · Fikes v. Johnson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) proper subject matter, (2) competent parties, (3) assent or meeting of the minds, and (4) consideration. Ray v. Alabama Central Credit Union, 472 So.2d 1012, 1014 (Ala.1985), quoting Craft v. Standard Accident Insurance Co., 220 Ala. 6 , 9, 123 So. 271, 273 (1929). Each of these four elements must be established in order to be successful on this defense."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hether accord and satisfaction is affirmatively established is dependent upon whether there was an 'assent or meeting of the minds.'”
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.