Eckert v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . . . The case will be reversed, with direction that the trial court enter up a judgment, decreeing to the appellants herein and plaintiffs below the interests to which they are entitled under the wills of their grandparents, and a judgment for such interest as the minors, represented by the guardian ad litem, are entitled to under the wills, and the court will decree a partition of the land to be made in accordance with law. The minors are not appealing, and have not cross-assigned on this appeal; but they are by law wards of the court, and it is the duty of the court, as we conceive it, to see that their interests are protected. Their interests, under the pleadings and evidence in the case, are in common with the plaintiffs and under the same right. As to the adults who permitted judgment by default, the judgment will be affirmed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gibson v. Blanton

2. ““It is elementary that, in order for a deed to operate as a conveyance, there must have been delivery with the intent and purpose on the part of the grantor to relinquish control of the deed. Steffian v. Milmo Bank, 69 Tex. 513 , 6 S.W. 823 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hart v. Rogers

3. ““An estate or freehold or inheritance may be made to commence in futuro, by deed or conveyance, in like manner as by will.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co. v. Bruce