Spivy v. March’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is not necessary for us to decide in this case whether a stranger to the title should ever be permitted to interpose this defense; but we are firmly convinced by authority and sound reasoning that, under such conditions, a court should construe the language as Mrs. Hensley (the grantor) and her heirs have construed it by their inaction for half a century. * * * We have in this case by the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals a stranger setting up a defect which the vendor refuses to assert. The injustice and unreasonable character of the proposition forbids that this court should approve it, unless required to do so by precedents that we dare not disregard. We do not find the decisions of our courts to be of that character.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Sudduth · Buvens v. Brown