Burrows v. Seale’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1981
22 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 Davidson v. Koehler · 35 Tex. Civ. App. 181 - Penn v. Texas Yellow Pine Lumber Co. · Kellner v. Ramdohr · Thompson v. Griffith · Ryan v. Frey
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Writ of érrorwás granted under the tentative view that the Court of Civil Appeals erred in holding that the description contained in the abstract mentioned in the written contract for the sale of the land, can be used to cure the insufficient- description contained in the written contract; and in further holding that .the. contract, as .so cured, can be specifically enforced in the face of an appropriate; defensive plea of the statute of frauds. We acjhere, upon final, consideration, to our tentative view. ... ' “It will be observed that the language employed-by the parties for descriptive •purposes in' the alleged contract -is T71 acres of land out of the M. Calvillo Grant No. 22, Wilson County, Texas’ (obviously an inadequate description on its face) plus a reference in the con-trac'bto a description carried in ‘an ab stract’ of title showing good-and mar-, ketable title-in vendor. This, reference, respondent contends; is spell as to m^lce, •the insufficient, descriptive language just.'quoted-adequate to, meet the re.quirements of the statute, by consideration- of the. description in the abstract along with the quoted description. “In adhering to our tentative view we do not hold that an abstract description properly referred to in thé written contract Can never be used in a suit of this kind, to' supplement the contract description. If the contract sufficiently identifies the abstract referred to — as for ‘ instance, one bearing a specified number and prépared by a named ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gohlke v. Davis
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.