Joy v. Joy’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1971
7 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 Cowden v. Cowden · 62 Tex. Civ. App. 560 - Burkitt v. Wynne · Texan Development Co. v. Hodges · Garrison v. Stokes · Galindo v. Garcia
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.
““Suits for the recovéry of lands or damages thereto, or to remove incum-brances upon the title to land, or to quiet the title tó' land, or to prevent or stay waste on lands, must be brought in the county in which the' land, ór a part thereof, may lie.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.