Ham v. Blankenship’s Empirical Analysis
194 F.2d 430 · 1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2023
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Gibbs v. Consolidated Gas Co. of Baltimore · Harris v. Runnels · Miller v. Ammon · Slaughter v. Qualls · Kneeland v. Emerton
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The royalty pool contracts were the contractual equivalent of the deeds here involved. While the matter can not be said to be beyond any doubt, in the absence of other applicable Texas authority, we think we should so declare the Texas law in this case. The trial judge, [Hon. Joseph B. Dooley] able and experienced in Texas jurisprudence, though without stating his reasons, reached the same conclusion. We hold that the deeds sought to be set aside are not ‘void’ in the sense for which appellant contends.” Ham v. Blankenship, 194 F.2d 430, 432 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject to be set aside and cancelled at the suit of”
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.