51 Tex. Civ. App. 108 - Altgelt v. Escalera’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1939
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.
“A person claiming real estate under a parol sale or gift obtains no assistance from the law, because it declares such a sale or gift invalid, and in order to enforce such parol agreement he must present proof of possession and the making of valuable improvements of a permanent character, or other facts [italics ours] showing that the transaction is a fraud on the purchaser or donee, it not enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ryan v. Lofton
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.