Broaddus v. Grout’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Morrow v. Shotwell (1972), Gates v. Asher (1955)
69 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 Wilson v. Fisher · Pickett v. Bishop · Smith Et Ux. v. Sorelle · Sanderson v. Sanderson · Hermann v. Likens
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The established test in determining the sufficiency, for compliance with the statute of conveyances and the statute of frauds, of the description of land in deeds and in contracts to convey land is thus stated in Wilson v. Fisher, 144 Tex. 53, 56-57 , 188 S.W.2d 150 , 152: `the writing must furnish within itself, or by reference to some other existing writing, the means or data by which the particular land to be conveyed may be identified with reasonable certainty.' (Emphasis added.) * * * [citing cases]."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.