Urban v. Crawley’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2011
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 Hooks v. Bridgewater · Cooke v. Avery · 39 Tex. Civ. App. 1 - Field v. Field · Walker Avenue Realty Co. v. Alaskan Fur Co. · Hill v. Hunter
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.
““The same rule of law applies to a verbal lease of land for a longer period than one year as applies to a parol sale of land. In order to relieve such a verbal contract from the operation of the Statute of Frauds, three things must necessarily exist as follows: “(1) Payment of the consideration, whether it be in money or services. “(2) Possession under the verbal lease by the lessee. “(3) The making by the lessee of valuable and permanent improvements upon the land with the consent of the lessor or without such improvements, the presence of such facts as would make the transaction a fraud upon the lessee if it were not enforced. “The existence of any one or two of these elements is not sufficient. All three must exist to defeat the operation of the Statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Griffith
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.