Major v. Loy’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1989
17 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 Silliman v. Gano · Hynes v. Packard · Pearson v. West · Taylor v. Wilson · Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Co. v. Thompson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This is a novel and difficult question to which we find no conclusive answer in any of the decisions." 155 S.W.2d 617, 623 , col. 2.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Selling a home and moving from it is an abandonment, as a matter of law. Intention alone to acquire another is, in advance of any character of actual residence, use or preparation, wholly immaterial and ineffective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. Thetford
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.