Sims v. Beeson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Bradley v. Pacific Southwest Bank (1992), Lifemark Corp. v. Merritt (1983)
6 federal appellate · 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 Great American Reserve Insurance Co. v. San Antonio Plumbing Supply Co. · Simmonds v. St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway Co. · Autry v. Reasor · Honaker v. Jones · Prince v. North State Bank of Amarillo
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled in [Texas] that in order to establish homestead rights, the proof must show a combination of both overt acts of homestead usage and the intention on the part of the owner to claim the land as a homestead.”
2 later decisions 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.