James Jones Charles Jones William Gorman Robert Lott John Tippin Matthew Tippin and John Tally v. Catherine McMasters by Her Next Friend Manuel Ybarba’s Empirical Analysis
61 U.S. 8 · 1857
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. (1906), Orchard v. Alexander (1895)
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hardy v. De Leon · Crawford v. Wilson · Desesbats v. Berquier · John McKinney v. Manuel Saviego and Pilar His Wife
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All fines, penalties, forfeitures and escheats which have accrued to the Republic of Texas under the constitution and laws shall accrue to the State of Texas; and the legislature shall by law provide a method for determining what lands may have been forfeited or escheated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No alien shall hold land in Texas except by titles emanating directly from the government of the republic; but if any citizen of this republic should die intestate or otherwise, his children or heirs shall inherit his estate ; and aliens shall have a reasonable time to take possession of and dispose of the same in a manner hereafter to be pointed out by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Airhart v. Massieu“if they were voidable for irregularity or other cause, the ques tion. .was not one for a court of law in an action to recover .possession, but for a court of equity to reform any error or mistake.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burnes v. Scott
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.