Harris v. Bittikofer’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1996
7 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 City of San Antonio v. Hamilton · Stewart v. Miller · Meacham v. Graham · 33 Tex. Civ. App. 116 - Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Tarwater · 8 Smith & H. 187 - Manhattan Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. Bedford
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When ... it is declared that the words [sic] heirs are words of limitation of the estate, it is meant of course that those words point out the line of succession in which the estate is to go, and when it is said they are not words of purchase, it results that they are words of descent, as descent and purchase are the only two modes of acquiring [property].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Broadly speaking, title ... may be acquired either by descent or by purchase. Title by descent is based on inheritance as an heir, or on escheat. Every other acquisition is by purchase, whether it be by gift, conveyance or devise. Words of limitation mark or define the quantum of the estate; whereas, words of purchase are related to the grantee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.