Kelly v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1979
8 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 Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Belcher · 32 Tex. Civ. App. 47 - Roberts & Corley v. McFadden, Weiss & Kyle · 53 Tex. Civ. App. 448 - Clifton v. Charles · 14 Tex. Civ. App. 363 - Hollingsworth v. Mexia · Hammond v. Hannin
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such cases, to recover special damages, it must be alleged and proven that it was the purpose and intention of the appellant to resell the property at some enhanced value, known to appellees at the time of making the contract. Haddock v. Taylor, 74 Tex. 216 , 11 S.W. 1093 ; Railway v. Wright, 15 Tex. Civ. App. 151 , 38 S.W. 836 ; M. K. T. Ry. Co. v. Belcher, 89 Tex. 428 , 35 S.W. 6 ; Payne v. Reynolds (Tex.Civ.App.) 239 S.W. 985 ; Amer. Exp. Co. v. Bean (Tex.Civ.App.) 233 S.W. 561 ; City of Brownsville v. Tumlinson (Tex.Civ.App.) 179 S.W. 1107 ; Hammond v. Hannin, 21 Mich. 374 , 4 Am. Rep. 490 ; Hall v. York, 22 Tex. 641 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spencer v. Davis
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.