45 Tex. Civ. App. 473 - Flack v. Bremen’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1948
11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““William Alley, the administrator, in whom lay the superior title for the benefit of the estate of Thomas Alley, having instituted’this suit in the district court to foreclose the mortgage lien given for the purchase money, and, thus having put his superior title in issue and having procured a judgment of foreclosure, had a sale made by the sheriff and received the benefit thereof, would be estopped to set up that such proceedings so instituted and carried out by him, and .of which he had received the benefit, were ineffectual for the purpose of passing to the purchaser the superior title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Chipley
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.