621 So. 2d 1313 - Duncan v. Rossuck’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2011
11 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 McDonald v. U.S. Die Casting and Dev. · Sims v. City of Birmingham · 454 So. 2d 1338 - Hall v. Integon Life Ins. Co. · Commercial Contractors, Inc. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Cobbs v. Fred Burgos Const. Co.
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.
“[U]nder Alabama law a written agreement may be modified by a subsequent oral agreement of the parties, unless some statutory provision provides otherwise. Hall v. Integon Life Insurance Co., 454 So.2d 1338 (Ala.[1984]). This is so even where the contract contains a requirement that all modifications be in writing. Commercial Contractors, Inc. v. United States & Guaranty Co., 524 F.2d 944 (5th Cir.1975) (applying Alabama law).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a contract provision making the contract subject to the procurement of a loan to finance the purchase price is a valid condition precedent to performance”
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.