James v. Drye’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
226 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 226 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Drye v. Eagle Rock Ranch, Inc. (1963), Carter v. William Sommerville and Son, Inc. (1979)
226 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 Renwar Oil Corporation v. Lancaster · Wolf v. Brass · Morris Plan Bank of Fort Worth v. Ogden · Smith v. Rampy · Rogers v. Scaling
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 226 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On appeal from an order overruling a plea of privilege every reasonable intendment must be resolved in favor of the trial court’s judgment.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“We approve the holding of the earlier cases that suits against former owners of land who have parted with all title prior to the filing of suit are not suits for ‘the recovery of lands’, or ‘damages to land’ within the meaning of Section 14, Article 1995, Revised Civil Statutes, 1925.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““Lands. — Suits for the recovery of lands or damages thereto, or to remove incum-brances upon the title to land, or to quiet the title to land, or to prevent or stay waste on lands, must be brought in the county in which the land, or a part thereof, may lie.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Cox v. Martin
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.