Cates v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 10 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The property being community, it could be sold by the husband alone, subject to the homestead rights of the wife. Such homestead rights constituted an estate in the property. Woods v. Alvarado State Bank, 118 Tex. 586 , 19 S.W.2d 35 . _ Neither this estate nor any of its incidents could be alienated by the husband alone, nor by the husband and wife jointly, unless the wife should acknowledge the conveyance in the manner prescribed by law. “The proposition that the lease was effectual as to the husband and would become operative whenever the homestead right terminated, and that there fore the trial court committed error in canceling the lease, is not tenable. This point was expressly ruled in Stallings v. Hullum, 89 Tex. 431 , 35 S.W. 2 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morris v. Porter

2. ““It is true that, after the royalty interest in the oil has been severed from the land, it becomes personal property, but until such severance it constitutes an interest in the realty * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lancaster v. Renwar Oil Corp.