Sharp v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably American Savings & Loan Ass'n of Houston v. Musick (1975), Harris v. Windsor (1956)
6 federal appellate · 60 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 Duhig v. Peavy-Moore Lumber Co. · Smith Et Ux. v. Sorelle · Adams v. Duncan · Unknown Heirs of Holloway v. Whatley · State v. Black Bros.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A reservation of minerals to be effective must be by clear language. Courts do not favor reservations by implication.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Following the grant there is designated the number of acres granted and the county and survey in which the land is located. . . . But the description is made certain by the language ‘being the same land described in’ the Frost deed.” [Emphasis added.] 252 S.W.2d 153 at 154 .”
1 later decision 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.