Whitmire v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 1994 · most notably Cleveland v. Milner (1943), Cleveland v. Milner (1943)
51 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.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““and to be reimbursed for the expense in partition; provided, the improvements were not placed upon it for the purpose of embarrassing his cotenants in the assertion of their rights. A tenant in common who has improved the land, not for the purpose of embarrassing his cotenants, is entitled to have them set apart to him, providing it can be done in justice to his cotenants; if this can not be done, then he is entitled to compensation for them in the partition. [Citation omitted.]” 103 Tex. at 236 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Denton v. Lazenby
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.