Maddux v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2004
8 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 Eustis v. Fosdick · 46 Tex. Civ. App. 582 - Goldstein v. Susholtz · Hanover Fire Insurance v. Shrader & Rogers · 15 Tex. Civ. App. 666 - Shiner v. Shiner · Stewart v. Moore
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.
““We think the authorities are uniform in holding that the file mark or indorsement on an instrument is merely evidence of its filing, but is not the actual filing of the instrument. The filing is. the delivery to the clerk and his acceptance for record in his office.””
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.