Stephens v. House’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1956
16 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 Boggess v. Meredith
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.
“All the right and title of the parties of the first part in and to a league of land granted to Mary Owens, lying on the northeast side of the W. San Jacinto river, they being entitled to one-fourth share of the estate of Mary Owens as heirs and they having heretofore conveyed an undivided fourth of their share of said land to W. R. Baker do now convey the balance of their interest, amounting to 815 acres not transferred. Also the share owned by Owens who lives in Louisiana, a brother of the said Mary White.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stephens v. House“An undivided interest in one league of land granted to the heirs of Mary Owens of eleven hundred and seven acres, being the undivided one-fourth part thereof, being the balance due the parties of the first part as heirs of said Mary Owens, after having given one-fourth of said league to W. R. Baker, deed heretofore made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stephens v. House“One labor of land granted to Mary Owens and the undivided one-fourth of one league of land granted to the heirs of Mary Owens lying on the N. side of the San Jacinto river and bounded by Massie on the W. and Votaw on the E. For more full description reference is made to the patent of the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stephens v. House
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.