Pitts v. Camp County’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1987 · most notably Harrison v. Facade, Inc. (1962), Young v. Rudd (1950)
27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the consideration, moving a grantor to execute a written conveyance of property, is not contractual in its nature, it is permitted to prove the real consideration, the doing of which does not infringe upon the rule that the terms of a valid written instrument cannot be varied by oral testimony. This is especially true, where the oral testimony does not contradict the written instrument, but rather shows what the real consideration is. La-nier v. Foust, 81 Tex. 186 , 16 S.W. 994 ; Taylor v. Merrill, 64 Tex. 494 , and authorities there cited.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“I find that in erecting the new courthouse it was the intention of the county to abandon the old courthouse and the property described in the plaintiff's petition for all courthouse and jail purposes, and it in fact has so abandoned the same for the aforesaid purposes. But the building thereon is being used as a public building by the citizens of Camp County as a public rest room and toilet, and is intended to be so used in the future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pitts v. Camp County“in the absence of proof that the county seat of Camp County had been removed beyond the territorial limits of the town of Pittsburg, as it existed on August 4, 1874, the appellants in this case have no cause of action against Camp County, and so long as the county seat of Camp County remains located within said territorial limits Camp County is entitled to the unrestricted possession of the property involved in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pitts v. Camp County
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.