Glenn v. Hollums’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.2d 555 · 1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017
3 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Johnson · Cornell Steamboat Company v. John J. Coughlin and J. C. Davis, Director General of Railroads, Etc · Hardy v. Beaty · Willis v. Smith · Eidson v. Reeder
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.
““In Texas, title acquired at an execution sale may be established by proof of a valid judgment, issuance of an execution thereon, a sale thereunder, the acceptance of a bid by the sheriff, payment of the costs, and payment of the purchase money either in cash or by crediting the judgment with the amount bid at the sale. Proof of these matters establishes an ‘equitable and superior’ title in the purchaser. A deed from the sheriff is a ministerial act not essential to the investiture of title. Donnebaum v. Tinsley, 54 Tex. 362, 365 ; Rosenthal & Desberger v. Mounts, Tex.Civ.App., 130 S.W. 192 ; Reeder v. Eidson, Tex.Civ.App., 102 S.W. 750 , reversed on other grounds, 101 Tex. 202 , 105 S.W. 1113 ; Gillette v. Davis, Tex.Civ.App., 15 S.W.2d 1085 ; Griggs v. Montgomery, Tex.Civ.App., 22 S.W.2d 688, 694 ; Logan’s Heirs v. Pierce, 66 Tex. 126 , 18 S.W. 343 ; Willis v. Smith, 66 Tex. 31 , 17 S.W. 247 . ‘The bid and payment of the purchase money * * * constitute the purchaser’s right; and the deed is merely evidence of that right.’ Miller v. Alexander, 8 Tex. 36 . “A title thus established, even in the absence of a sheriff’s deed, will support an action of trespass to try title, or to recover the land. ⅛ ⅝ ⅜ * sfc ⅜ “By virtue of the sheriff’s sales, appellant concededly acquired an ‘equitable and superior’ title to the lands prior to the filing of the petitions in bankruptcy. That title was in no sense inchoate. It had vested. It created in the purchaser a property right which can b”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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