38 Tex. Civ. App. 537 - Whitaker v. Thayer’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1971 · most notably Bruni v. Vidaurri (1942), Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Pullen (1925)
24 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury having found that plaintiffs had the title, there was no one else that had or appeared to have any interest or claim to the land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapman v. Dickerson
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.