Malone v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably Coastal Corp. v. Garza (1998), Taber v. Smith (1930)
35 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law is rightly announced on this point in an opinion’ of the Commission of Appeals by Judge Spencer in these words: “ ‘Applying the rule of law stated to these facts, the legal import of the contract is to pass the title by operation of law to the defendants in error at point of origin. The effect of the custom pleaded by vendee was to change the rights and liabilities of the parties as thus fixed by law. This cannot be done. The legal import of a contract, as distinguished from its express terms, cannot be varied by usage. That is, where judicial construction has affixed to a contract a certain meaning and has defined the rights and liabilities thereunder, this legal effect or import cannot be varied by proof of a'usage giving to the contract a different meaning. 17 Corpus Juris, 512.’ Alexander v. Heidenheimer (Tex.Com.App.) 221 S.W. [942] 944.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.