Kirby v. Conn’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1944
5 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 Erp v. Tillman · Wyerts v. Terrell · Murphy v. Terrell · 58 Tex. Civ. App. 335 - Hooks v. Kirby · Jones v. Terrell
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evident purpose and intent of this statute is to limit.to one year the time in which an award or sale of land by the state can be attacked on the ground of irregularity, by one who claims only a right to purchase, and does not affect one whose right in the land sought to be recovered had vested prior to the award, or sale-by the state, to the adverse claimant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Thomas
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.