Langley v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Federal Sign v. Texas Southern University (1997), Bryant v. Clark (1962)
3 federal appellate · 110 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 Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Ass'n v. Stovall · Hazzard v. Morrison · Wilson v. Beaty · Stevens v. Palmour · Lewis Bros. v. Pendleton
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who, with knowledge, actual or constructive, of the executory contract acquires the legal title [from] the vendor subsequently to an executory contract for the sale of land ..., may be compelled, at the suit of the vendee under the executory contract, to perform the contract by conveying the legal title, if the conditions are such that such relief could have been granted against the vendor if he had not transferred the legal title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * Absolute certainty is not necessary. ‘The certainty required in a contract which renders it subject to an action for specific performance is a reasonable certainty.’ Wilson v. Beaty, Tex.Civ.App., 211 S.W. 524, 527 (application for writ of error refused); Stevens v. Palmour, Tex.Civ.App., 269 S.W. 1057, 1059, 1060 ; Ward v. Stuart, 62 Tex. 333, 335, 336 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bendalin v. Delgado
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.