Williamson v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1948
6 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 45 Tex. Civ. App. 60 - Morris v. Morris
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of a joint owner or claimant of any estate to compel a partition thereof between the other joint owners or claimants ‘is recognized by our statute in the broadest terms.’ Article 3606, Rev. Stats. 1895; article 6096, Rev. Stats. 1911; Morris v. Morris, 45 Tex. Civ. App. 60 , 99 S. W. 872 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henderson v. Chesley
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.