Wheeler v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Curtis v. Gibbs (1974), Reed v. Reed (1958)
30 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 Cleveland v. Ward · Lancaster v. Lancaster · Texas Trunk Ry. Co. v. Lewis, Sheriff · V. D. Anderson Co. v. Young · Ashford v. Goodwin
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the adjudication of defendants in error’s right to a lien on the property would in no wise interfere with the receiver’s possession of the property. Neither actual possession of the property nor constructive possession of the property is in any manner involved in the question of adjudicating the matter of a lien in favor of or against either of the parties to this suit. The determination of the question of whether or not a lien exists in favor of defendants in error of any of the property in the receiver’s hands has no more effect upon the possession of that property than does the adjudication of the question of whether or not defendants in error have a debt owing to them as alleged in the pleadings. Both quest tions are purely abstract, and are entirely disassociated with any character of physical relation to, or mental attitude toward, the actual property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where two actions involving the same subject matter are brought in different courts having concurrent jurisdiction, “the court which first acquires jurisdiction, its power being adequate to administer full justice to the rights of all concerned, should retain such jurisdiction, undisturbed by the interference of any other court, and dispose of the whole controversy.” Wheeler v. Williams, 158 Tex. 383 , 312 S.W.2d 221, 228 (1958).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“acts of fraud and deceit ... caused [the second-filer] to delay the filing of the [second] suit” and that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.