622 So. 2d 337 - Downs v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2018
9 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 538 So. 2d 794 - Bass v. SOUTHTRUST BANK OF BALDWIN CTY. · Hanners v. Balfour Guthrie, Inc. · 531 So. 2d 860 - Bussey v. John Deere Co. · AgriStor Leasing v. Farrow · 496 So. 2d 756 - Wilson v. Brown
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To hold otherwise is to encourage deliberate fraud.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Environmental Sys., Inc. v. Rexham Corp. , 624 So.2d 1379 , 1383 (Ala. 1993) ; see also Downs v. Wallace , 622 So.2d 337 , 342 (Ala. 1993) (holding that 'when the agreement has been induced by intentional fraud the mere presence of an integration clause in the written instrument does not, as a matter of law, insulate the guilty party').”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a general proposition, the parol evidence rule applies to contract actions, not [to] actions in tort. Parol evidence is ordinarily admissible to show that a written agreement was procured by fraud.”
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.