Howard v. Masterson’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 1968 · most notably Southern Pine Lumber Company v. Hart (1960), Davis v. Gale (1960)
40 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * When the plaintiff in an action of trespass to try title has proved that both he and the defendant claim from the same grantor, and that he has the superior title as emanating from that source, he has made out a prima facie case. No other facts appearing, it is to be presumed that the defendant claims no other title. * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.