Watson v. Cloud’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1970
4 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 Allen v. Plummer · Kenedy Town & Improvement Co. v. First Nat. Bank of Victoria · 14 Tex. Civ. App. 370 - Scott v. Rowland
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It [the oil and gas lease] did not purport to be a divisible contract by the terms of which the lessee would acquire a lease upon the undivided interest of such lessors as might execute the instrument in the event the other owners of the land did not execute it. For that reason, the lessee could have refused to be bound by the instrument after the other heirs refused to execute it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradley v. Howell
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.