Free v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1968
18 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 Deaton v. Rush · Williams v. Sapieha · Moran v. Moseley · Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Gore
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an action of any character where the relief sought, if granted, would have effect to dispossess the defendant of land or to invest the complainant with title to land, including the incidental right of possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glenney v. Crane“right of action for the recovery of real estate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glenney v. Crane
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.