Hensley v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2007
1 federal appellate · 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 Deaton v. Rush · Millican v. McNeill · Gibbs v. Barkley · Douglass v. Blount · 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appeal therefore presents for decision the sole question of whether or not the one-third of the 1/120 undivided interest which Mrs. C. L. Hensley owned as a remainderman; subject to the life estate of her mother, who was still living, was also barred by limitation. “We have reached the conclusion that this interest was not barred. The statutes of limitation as to an interest in land, which one owns as a remainder-man, subject to a life estate in another, do not begin to run in favor of one in possession until the death of the life tenant.” “Right of possession being an essential of a cause of action in trespass to try title, such cause of action, it seems to us, cannot accrue within the foregoing definition of accrual, until the life estate in some manner terminates.””
3 later decisions 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.