Curtis v. Speck’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably HOLY CROSS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST v. Wolf (2001), Allen Sales & Servicenter, Inc. v. Ryan (1975)
4 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gregory v. Ward · Parker v. Mazur · City Nat. Bank of Corpus Christi v. Pope · Beckham v. Scott · Hannaman v. Gordon
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he intention to accelerate maturity must be evidenced by clear and unequivocal acts followed by affirmative action towards enforcing the declared intention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Defendant contends that since the property in question was occupied by him as a homestead, under a contract of sale prior to its actual purchase and prior to the execution of the purchase-money notes sought to be foreclosed, that he had acquired a homestead right therein superior to the vendor’s and deed of trust liens retained to secure the payment of said notes. We cannot sustain this contention. The rule has been definitely established in this state that until the purchase money for property is paid, the purchaser has no such interest therein as will support the homestead right against the person to whom such purchase money is due. 22 Tex.Jur. p. 296. It is further the established law in this state that where a vendor’s lien is retained in the purchase of property the homestead plea is inadmissible in the absence of pleadings under oath that the recitations in reference to said lien were induced through fraud or mistake. “This rule has been recently reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in the case of Gregory v. Ward, 118 Tex. 526 , 18 S.W.2d 1049 , wherein it was held that evidence from the probate records showing that property was a homestead was not admissible in a suit to enforce a vendor’s lien.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.