Robertson v. Du Bose’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions

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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the case of Chamblee v. Tarbox, 27 Tex. 144 , this court said that similarity of name alone ‘is ordinarily sufficient evidence of identity of a purchaser in a chain of conveyance.’ In the absence of evidence casting doubt upon the identity of a party to a conveyance of land, we think it ought to be held sufficient in every case, and the jury, if instructed upon the subject at all, ought to be told so.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dittman v. Cornelius

2. ““The objection that the claim of defendant was stale wás not a good ground for excluding the instrument from the jury as evidence. The same objection was more appropriately raised by the pleadings and by charges requested by appellant and refused by the court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Moore v. Foster Lumber Co.

3. ““If it is evident, from the conveyance, that it is intended to convey whatever land the certificate is applied to, that is all that is required-””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Richardson v. Temple Lumber Co.