Mexia v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1924
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is laid down in this court, as a general rule, that the plaintiff in an action of trespass to try title must recover upon his title as it existed at the time of the institution of the suit, and that, in order to avail himself of an after-acquired title, he must amend so as to avail himself of it as a new cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Schrimsher
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.