Fulton v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Simpson v. Green (1921), Botello v. Misener-Collins Company (1971)
32 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“my own headright, lying on Rush Creek, in the cross timbers”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general rule has often been announced in other courts as well as our own, that the memorandum under the statute of frauds should be so reasonably definite and certain within itself, or other writing referred to, as to parties, consideration, and subject-matter, that specific performance can be enforced without a resort to parol testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Latham v. Kistler“Following the line of our decisions, it is said in Thomas v. Hammond that, in this state, the rule is settled that it is not necessary that the consideration of a contract for the sale of lands should be expressed in writing. 47 Tex. 55 ; Ellett v. Brittain, 10 Tex. 208 ; Atkins v. Watson, 12 Tex. 199 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Latham v. Kistler
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.