Alba v. Strong’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1978
19 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 Jenkins v. Harrison · Phillips v. Adams · Carter v. Shorter · Horton v. Wollner, Hirshberg & Co. · Norman v. Molett
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The following propositions must be regarded as settled by the former decisions of this court beyond controversy: First , that to authorize the specific enforcement of an agreement to sell land, all the terms of the agreement must have been agreed on, leaving nothing for negotiation. Second , that all the terms of the agreement viz., the names of the parties, the subject-matter of the contract, the consideration and the promise, must be in writing . . . Third , that it is not essential that the paper evidence of the agreement be in any particular form, provided it contain the substance, as stated above. Fourth , that the written evidence of the terms of the agreement need not all be expressed in one paper. . . ."”
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.