Adams v. Van Mourick’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1962
5 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 34 Tex. Civ. App. 265 - Sorrells v. Goldberg · Langham v. City of Beaumont
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Where, by * * * parol lease for a period longer than one year, the landlord places the tenant in possession of the premises, and receives from him one or more installments of rent in accordance with the terms of the lease, this constitutes such part performance as will take the contract out of the statute of frauds, and the same may be enforced in accordance with its terms.’ Sorrells v. Goldberg et al., 34 Tex. Civ. App. 265 , 78 S. W. 711 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Halsell v. Scurr
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.