Sinclair v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1974
23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Adequate provision has been made in our laws for the recovery of possession of property which has been forcibly taken or forcibly detained, and as said in Warren v. Kelley, 17 Tex. 551 , if one holding title to land was permitted, by himself, or his agent, with force and arms, to dispossess one in peaceable possession, the consequences would be breaches of the peace,, oppression, and bloodshed, and trial by the use of the bowie knife and revolver would be resorted to instead of the quiet and peaceable remedy afforded by the due course of law in the judicial tribunals of the country.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. Biggs
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.