McBurney v. Knox’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2007
14 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 Phillipson v. Flynn · Holland v. Nance · Titel v. Garland · Church v. Waggoner · Olsen v. Grelle
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The registration of the deeds under which he claims is notice to his cotenants of their existence and of his adverse claim. Church v. Waggoner, 78 Tex. 203 , 14 S.W. 581 ; Mayes v. Manning, 73 Tex. 43 , 11 S.W. 136 ; Puckett v. McDaniel, 8 Tex. Civ. App. 630 , 28 S.W. 360 (writ refused); Robles v. Robles (Tex.Civ.App.) 154 S.W. 230 . The rule is well settled that, when one of several tenants in common executes a deed purporting to convey the entire premises to one who places his deed of record and enters into possession of the property, claiming title thereto, such possession is hostile to that of the cotenants and they are charged with knowledge of the hostile character thereof, and after the expiration of the statutory periods of limitation their rights will be barred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order to affect the cotenants with this adverse holding, notice of such fact must be brought home to them, either by information to this effect given by the tenant in common asserting the adverse right, or by such acts of unequivocal notoriety in the assertion of such adverse and hostile claim that they will be presumed to have notice of such adverse right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That field never did connect with any other field afterwards. It is still there, separate from the surrounding improvements. It is still there separate from the others, and on the Knox tract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McBurney v. Knox
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.