Slaughter v. Qualls’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Houston First American Savings v. Musick (1983), Mercer v. Bludworth (1986)
2 federal appellate · 143 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 Burnham v. Hardy Oil Co. · Patty v. Middleton · Moore v. Giesecke · Rutherford v. Carr · Carl v. Settegast
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule has long been established in this State that where a deed is absolutely void, a suit at law in trespass to try title may be maintained to recover the land without setting the deed aside, and the statutes of limitation governing actions for the recovery of land apply. On the other hand, where a deed is merely voidable and the equity powers of the Court must first be invoked to cancel the deed before a suit can be maintained at law to recover the land, then the four-year statute. Art. 5529, R.C.S.1925, controls.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Ramsey · Garcia v. Garza“`That which is voidable operates to accomplish the thing sought to be accomplished, until the fatal vice in the transaction has been judicially ascertained and declared.'”
2 later decisions 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.