Dull v. Blum’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Turner v. Hunt (1938), 1 Tex. Civ. App. 354 - Dohoney v. Womack (1892)
2 federal appellate · 41 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the instrument in question cannot be regarded, in our opinion, as conveying the legal title. It is true it has the conveying words of a deed, 'and purports to be a present conveyance, and not a mere promise to convey. But the terms of the instrument show that the title was not to pass as the immediate effect of the contract. Fairchild took title to no part of the land before selection. He only acquired a right to choose and designate a tract of three hundred and twenty acres, to be taken in a defined shape, out of any one of the four corners of a larger tract. Until the designation was made, he clearly had no title to any specific tract. Nor did he have title to any undivided interest in the whole.””
1 later decision 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.