Bell County v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1977 · most notably Bergin v. Bergin (1958), City of Dallas v. Etheridge (1952)
1 federal appellate · 31 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every estate in lands which shall thereafter (hereafter) be granted, conveyed or devised to one although other words heretofore necessary at-common law to transfer an estate in fee simple be not added, shall be deemed a fee simple, if a less estate be not limited by express words or do not appear to have been ■ 'granted, conveyed or devised by construction or operation of law.” ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pritchett v. Badgett“And it is well settled, that, if the act does not necessarily precede the vesting of the estate, but may accompany or follow it; if this is to be collected from the whole will, the condition is subsequent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.