Moseley v. Hearrell’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2019
19 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 Henderson v. Chesley · 45 Tex. Civ. App. 60 - Morris v. Morris · Blackmarr v. Williamson · Caldwell v. Farrier · Williamson v. McElroy
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]quitable rules apply in determining how the property is to be partitioned, once partition is granted, but equitable principales [sic] are not material in determining whether or not the right of partition may be exercised. It may sometimes be inequitable to one or more of the joint owners if another co-owner is permitted to enforce partition of the jointly owned property; but this is one of the consequences which one assumes when he becomes a co[ ]tenant in land. If he does not provide against it by contract, he may expect his cotenant to exercise his statutory right of partition at will.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any joint owner or claimant of any real estate or of any interest therein or of any mineral, coal, petroleum, or gas lands, whether held in fee or by lease or otherwise, may compel a partition thereof between the other joint owners or claimants thereof in the manner provided in this chapter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the above statutes confer the right to compel partition in the broadest terms.”
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.