7 Tex. Civ. App. 32 - MacGregor v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1937 · most notably Bowles v. Bryan (1923), Marshburn v. Stewart (1927)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law creates and confers the title arising from adverse possession. It does not flow from a contract between the parties, which could be reduced to writing, and put of record. There is no privity between the possessor and him who is dispossessed, and the right of the former does not result from any act of the latter, but is the effect given by law to the possession. The adverse possessor does not hold under the former owner, but independently of him. As the law makes the title complete when the time has run, we cannot hold it necessary for the possessor to do something else, which the law has not exacted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heard v. Bowen
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.