Gates v. Asher’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably J.M. Davidson, Inc. v. Webster (2003), Westland Oil Development Corp. v. Gulf Oil Corp. (1982)
2 federal appellate · 84 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 · Maupin v. Chaney · Cartwright v. Trueblood
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that certain land, property and premises located and being situate in the City and County of Galveston, Texas, and commonly known, designated and described as: All of Lots Number Ten (10), Eleven (11) and Twelve (12) in Block One Hundred Seventy-five (175), in Denver Resurvey No. 2, together with all improvements, appurtenances and heredit-aments thereunto in anywise belonging or appertaining.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Upon examination of the records it is disclosed that there is no Denver Resurvey No. 2. Looking at the plat of Denver Resurvey the searcher finds a block designated “2” and the same block designated as “org. 175”. The figure “2” in the description must have been inserted for some purposes. It cannot refer to the lots because they are designated as 10, 11 and 12. It cannot refer to the survey because there is only one Denver Resurvey. It would require no strained deduction to assume, therefore, that the “No. 2” designates the block and particularly is this so when the plat reveals a block designated as “2” and also as “org. 175”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A reasonable certainty is all that the law requires. Conviction beyond all peradventure of doubt is unnecessary. Mansel v. Castles, 93 Tex. 414 , 55 S.W. 559, 560 . In that case the court supplied by construction an entire call missing from the deed and held in part as follows: "`While, therefore, the proposition that the calls of the description in question correct themselves, and show the land intended to be described, is not capable of mathematical demonstration, yet that it is true is reasonably certain. Upon such certainty we act in all the highest concerns of life, and it is sufficient for the purposes of the law.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lebow v. Weiner
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.