Bradley v. Owsley’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 1950 · most notably Francis v. Thomas (1937), Gulf Production Co. v. Continental Oil Co. (1939)
42 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such possession with payment of the purchase money and improvements of a permanent character enhancing the value of the premises, or such possession without improvements connected with other circumstances making the transaction a fraud upon the purchaser if the agreement is not enforced, will take the case out of the statute of frauds.” 74 Texas 69, 72 , 11 S. W. 1052, 1053 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Mawman
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.