Calvert v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In determining the question of whether this case is a suit for title to real estate, or one for breach of a contract for the conveyance of real estate, or a suit for specific performance, the test is whether the agreement alleged was one in which title was to be taken in the names of both plaintiff and defendants, or was one in which title was to be taken in the names of defendants, and they in turn agreed to convey an interest therein to plaintiff. In the first case the agreement vests a present interest in the title to land in plaintiff, and is a suit for land, within the provisions of Subd. 14, Art. 1995, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stats. In the second case it is a suit for breach of contract or specific performance and may not be maintained in the county in which the land is situated, under such subdivision. Cowden v. Cowden, supra [ 143 Tex. 446 , 186 S.W.2d 69 ]; Brown v. Gilmore, supra [Tex.Civ.App., 267 S.W.2d 908 ] ; Cree v. Cluck, supra [Tex.Civ.App., 246 S.W.2d 337 ]; Klein v. Sibley, supra [Tex.Civ.App., 203 S.W.2d 239 ] ; Robinson v. O’ Keefe, supra [Tex.Civ.App., 107 S.W.2d 419 ].””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hicks v. Hicks · Rogers v. Winn

2. ““Lands. — Suits for the recovery of lands or damages thereto, or to .remove incumbrances upon the title to land, or to quiet the title to land, or to prevent or stay waste on lands, must be brought in the county in which the land, or a part thereof, may lie.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Woodworth v. Rogers