Morse v. Nibbs’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1937
13 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 Martin v. McAllister · Williams v. Steele · 17 Tex. Civ. App. 147 - Vineyards, Guardians v. Brundrett · Moody v. Butler · 14 Tex. Civ. App. 316 - Cage v. Tucker's Heirs
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is now well settled in this state that the survivor of a marital relation has authority, without administration on the estate of the deceased spouse in any of the statutory modes, to sell community property to pay community debts. The purchaser of community property under such circumstances is not bound to see that the purchase money is applied to the payment of the community debts. It is essential, however, to the protection of the purchaser that the consideration paid be not grossly inadequate, that there be no collusion or fraud to which he is a party, and that he have no knowledge of any intention of the survivor to misapply the proceeds. Sanger v. Heirs, of Moody, 60 Tex. 96 ; Walker v. Abercrombie, 61 Tex. 69 ; Moody v. Butler, 63 Tex. 210 ; Ashe v. Yungst, 65 Tex. 631 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lipsitz v. Rice
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.