Baylor's lessee v. Dejarnette’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1919 · most notably McArthur v. Scott (1885), Hale v. Hale (1893)
24 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.
“that where all the parties are brought before the court that can be brought before it, and the court acts on the property according to the rights that appear, without fraud, its decision must of necessity be final and conclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McArthur v. Scott“it is impossible to say the creditors are to remain unpaid and the trust not to be executed until a son is born. If there is no first son in being, the court must take the facts as they stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McArthur v. Scott
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.