Walker v. Houston’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2010
9 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 Taylor v. Colley · Coleman v. Law · Moody v. Millen · Mims v. West · Marshall v. Whatley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time Mary J. Crosby of Pierce County proposed to convey the property now in question, there was filed and docketed against her in that county a valid suit in which her claim of title was being attacked. By ascertaining the fact that she resided in Pierce County and by inspecting the dockets and files of the superior court of that county, any person could have discovered the existence and character of [Houston's] claim. Under the law this was a necessary precaution; and this is true notwithstanding the property was located in a different county.... Under the facts appearing in the present case, no essential element of a valid notice of lis pendens was lacking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““To the existence of a valid and effective lis pendens, it is essential that three elements be present; that is, three material facts must concur: the [real] property must be of a character to be subject to the rule; the court must have jurisdiction both of the person and the subject-matter; and the [real] property involved must be sufficiently described in the pleadings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The sole question to be determined is whether the suit to cancel the [Bacon County] deed, as filed and docketed in Pierce County, constituted constructive notice of [Houston's] claim against the property as to those who purchased during the pendency of [the Pierce County] litigation, the same having terminated favorably to [Houston].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.