Greene v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Orsborn v. Deep Rock Oil Corp. (1954), Loeffler v. King (1951)
26 federal appellate · 151 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 Kahn v. Kahn · Elliott v. Nelson · Waco Bridge Company v. City of Waco · Poitevent v. Scarborough · Luse v. Boatman
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was sufficient, for the purposes of this case, if it appeared that it [the deed reserving and dedicating the streets] was one of the sources under which the plaintiff claimed the land.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Court’s opinion is that if at the time the Greene-Garrett deed was executed Alex and Mandy Garrett had acquired title to the land by limitation, the deed was not effective to convey anything, and that, in so far as Alex Garrett’s interest in the land was concerned, the Greene-Garrett deed did not have the effect of reserving the minerals to Greene either at the time of its execution or upon its ratification by Mandy Garrett.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellett v. Liedtke“for they could have no homestead right or interest in land to which they had no title”
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.