569 So. 2d 387 - Hight v. Byars’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2014
3 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 Thompson v. New South Coal Co. · Cammorata v. Woodruff · Kemp Motor Sales, Inc. v. Lawrenz · Durham v. Harbin · 474 So. 2d 657 - Thompson v. Wilson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Alabama law is well settled on the principle that in order for an agent to act on a principal's behalf regarding a matter controlled by the Statute of Frauds, the agent's authority must be in writing. Moreover, any contract made by an agent without written authority is void if the contract itself is one that has to be in writing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any contract made by an agent without written authority is void if the contract itself is one that has to be in writing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.