Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In Texas the rule is well settled that in a trespass to try title suit in the statutory language it is not necessary to allege that no administration is pending and-none necessary. Pure Oil Co. v. Tunnell, 126 Tex. 57 , 86 S.W.2d 207 . If during the trial, however, it develops that the cause of action is one in which assets are involved which may be decreed a part of the decedent’s estate, then it becomes necessary as a jurisdictional matter to prove that no administration is pending and none necessary; absent such proof, the proper judgment to be entered by the court is one of dismissal. In the instant case, a statutory trespass to try title suit, it was unnecessary for plaintiffs to include in their petition any allegation with reference to the pend-ency of an administration on the estate of J. C. T. Wilson, deceased. After it became apparent that the suit was one pertaining to part of the assets of J. C. T. Wilson’s estate it became necessary to prove that there was no administration on his estate and none necessary.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Coakley v. Reising · Harper v. Harper