39 Tex. Civ. App. 586 - Griffin v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1957
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.
Relationships
Relies on Withers v. Patterson · Clements v. Lacy · McCloy & Trotter v. Arnett · E. B. and E. J. Jenkins v. Volz · Lewis v. Sellick
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.
““The question as to whether the purchaser, under the facts of this case, acquired a good title, is not controlled by the fact that the records in the guardianship proceedings failed to show that the property was the homestead of the lunatic. As we understand it, the test is, Was the property the homestead, in fact, of the lunatic at the time it was ordered sold, and at the time the sale was confirmed?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cline v. Niblo““The county court not having the power to order the sale [of the homestead], no title passed to the purchaser at a sale made in pursuance of such order. The order was a nullity, and it is immaterial whether the purchaser had knowledge of the fact that the property was the homestead or not. Having purchased under a void order, he took no title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cline v. Niblo
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.