Hunter v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 150th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Spencer v. Schell · Rancho Oil Co. v. Powell · Heidenheimer v. Bauman · Williams v. Williams · Lindsley v. Lindsley
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is certainly according to equity and good conscience to require the survivor to pay current taxes, and deny the right to reimbursement for expenses of upkeep, when under the Constitution and laws of this state, he is given the exclusive possession of the premises for life, or as long as he elects to use or occupy the same as a homestead, and this right carries with it all the fruits, rents, and revenues derived therefrom.”
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.