Wright v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is an admitted principle that, in an execu-tory contract for the sale of land, equity considers the vendor and vendee reciprocally trustees for each other, one for the land and the other for the purchase money. In contemplation of equity, the vendee is actually seised of the estate; and his seizure becomes perfect on the payment of the purchase money. We have’ repeatedly decided that the equitable title of the vendee, who is not in default, may be set up in defense, against an action by the vendor, to eject him from possession, and that such title will sustain an action for the recovery of the land. [Miller v. Alexander] 8 Tex. 42 ; [Browning v. Estes] 3 Tex. 462 . The title of the vendee not in default, and especially after payment of the purchase money, is superior to that of the vendor. In fact, the latter is but a shadow, contrasted with the substance and efficiency of the former.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blakely v. Kanaman