Storms v. Tuck’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Scott v. Cannon (1998), Holden v. Weidenfeller (1996)
2 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Drye v. Eagle Rock Ranch, Inc. · Barfield v. Howard M. Smith Company of Amarillo · F. J. Harrison & Co. v. Boring · Richey v. Miller · Bickler v. Bickler
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As generally stated, the doctrine holds that the owner of land may be estopped to deny the Existence [sic] of an easement by making representations that have been acted upon by a purchaser to his detriment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sorrell v. Gengo · Murphy v. Long“The doctrine of estoppel in pais has been applied when the seller allows the purchaser to expend money on the ‘servient’ tract, as for example a drainage ditch across the grantor's land, or a house or other structure which encroaches on the land of the 'servient' estate”; Drye, 364 S.W.2d at 210 . See Storms, 579 S.W.2d at 453 ; Murphy v. Long, 170 S.W.3d 621, 628 (Tex.App.-El Paso 2005, pet. denied). 15 . Where there is little or no evidence that the owner of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Cockrell
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.