Burt v. Deorsam’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1963
16 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 National Oil & Pipe Line Co. v. Teel · Village Mills Co. v. Houston Oil Co. · Stout v. Taul · Hitson v. Gilman · Ferrell-Michael Abstract & Title Co. v. McCormac
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the facts above stated, the court sustained the plea of res adjudicata. This was error. It is a general rule of law that a judgment is binding only as to parties thereto and their privies. ‘Privies,’ in so far as applicable to the facts of this case, mean those who have purchased from a party to the suit after the same was begun. R. S. art. ’ 7758; Abstract Co. v. McCormac (Tex. Civ. App.) 184 S. W. 1089; Lamar County v. Talley (Tex. Civ. App.) 127 S. W. 276 ; Village Mills v. Oil Co. (Tex. Civ. App.) 186 S. W. 790; Stout v. Taul, 71 Tex. 444 , 9 S. W. 329 . Appellant purchased the lease from Hall prior to the institution of the suit against Hall. The lis pendens notice filed in said cause did not affect him. Burke-Simmons Co. v. Konz (Tex. Civ. App.) 178 S. W. 587 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Urban v. Bagby““ ‘Where the parties have expressly agreed on what shall be done, there is no room for implication for anything not so stipulated for.’ ” 18 R.C.L. 1213.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coats v. Brown
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.