White v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably McDonald v. Richard (1943), Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Thompson (1953)
2 federal appellate · 44 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 Griffing v. Taft · Brown v. Sugar Creek Syndicate · Hightower v. Maritzky · Bremer v. North Central Texas Oil Co. · St. Landry Oil & Gas Co. v. Neal
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily, where one sells the property of another — and the rule is equally applicable to the granting or sale of mineral leases — and later acquires title to the property sold by him, the title vests immediately in his vendee. Bonin v. Eyssaline, 12 Mart.,O.S., 185, 227; McGuire v. Amelung, 12 Mart.,O.S., 649; Woods v. Kimbal, 5 Mart.,N.S., 246, 247; Fenn v. Rils, 9 La. 95, 100 ; Stokes v. Shakleford [Shackleford], 12 La. 170 ; Lee v. Ferguson, 5 La.Ann. 532 ; New Orleans v. Riddell, 113 La. 1051 , 37 So. 966 ; Wolff [Wolf] v. Carter, 131 La. 667 , 60 So. 52 ; Brewer v. New Orleans Land Co., 154 La. 446 , 97 So. 605 .” (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.