39 Tex. Civ. App. 450 - Sweet v. Lyon’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1978
12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, if appellant could assert any right to the lot by virtue of its being his homestead prior to and at the time of making the parol gift to appellees, he had no pleadings raising such issue in this case, and without such pleadings he could not avail himself of any such right.””
1 later decision 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.