Joiner v. Elrod’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2024
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 Garcia v. Karam · Gulf Production Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Puckett v. Hoover · Gulf Production Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Laredo Hides Co., Inc. v. H & H Meat Products Co., Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f neither the portion of the written contract affected by the subsequent modification, nor the matter encompassed by the modification itself is required by the Statute of Frauds to be in writing ...”
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.