Veltmann v. Damon’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2004
7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 63rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Miles v. Martin · Robinson v. Weaver · Edds v. Mitchell, Admr. · Sherman v. Sipper · Hodge v. Ellis
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“GRANTED, SOLD AND CONVEYED, and by these presents do Grant, Sell, and Convey unto EXA VELTMANN DAMON of the County of Bexar and State of Texas, subject to a life estate retained by Grantor, my undivided one-half (⅛⅛) interest in and to the following described real property in Kinney County, Texas, to writ: ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Veltmann v. Damon“TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all of the above described premises, including all of the community interest owned in said property by the undersigned and all of the interest in said property owned by the Estate of CLYDE C. VELTMANN, Deceased ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Veltmann v. Damon
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.