Walker v. Horine’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably West Texas Transmission, L.P. v. Enron Corp. (1990), Nautical Landings Marina, Inc. v. First National Bank in Port Lavaca (1990)
4 federal appellate · 17 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 City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Morrow v. Shotwell · Custom Leasing, Inc. v. Texas Bank & Trust Co. of Dallas · Manges v. Astra Bar, Inc. · Smith v. Liddell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, the option agreement is in a separate writing which is signed by both parties. There is no allegation of record that it was not supported by consideration. It is dated and states the price of the land. It refers to exhibit A of the lease for a description of the land. This is sufficient to describe the land under the statute of frauds because the option agreement document furnishes within itself the means by which the property could be identified with reasonable certainty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although executed on the same day, they [the agreements] are not necessarily part of the same transaction because each agreement gives the parties separate benefits as well as separate obligations. .... The lease agreement provides for assignment with prior written permission of the lessor. No similar written provision exists in the option agreement ..., [which provides] "that its benefits will inure to the assigns.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of an ambiguity, the court need not look to extrinsic evidence. The court will limit its search for the intent of parties to the intent expressed within the four corners of a document.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Seal v. Knorpp
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.