Couch v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1995
7 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 Burns v. American Nat. Ins. · Faulkner v. Otto · Murrah v. Shirley
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our courts appear to have held in similar circumstances that such an instrument, or earnest money receipt, as this one, could not become operative as a contract-of-purchase until the occurrence of the .expressly stated condition precedent thereto, which, as abundantly shown in this instance, never did occur. Faulkner v. Otto, Tex.Civ.App., 230 S.W. 447 ; Burns v. American Nat. Ins. Co., Tex.Com.App., 280 S.W. 762, 765 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zeluff v. Ekman
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.