Riley v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We think that where it appears from the record that a party has not been injured by such failure to act on the part of the trial judge within the time prescribed, and where every contention made by such party has been preserved in the record, he is not entitled to have the case reversed on the bare error assigned. “The appellant’s motion for new trial presented as error the very grounds set out in, the judgment as the basis for that judgment and a statement of facts preserved the evidence so that, upon appropriate assignments, the alleged errors could have been reviewed by the Court of Civil Appeals.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Johnston · Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co. v. Stewart & Threadgill

2. ““ * * * Before the judge without the intervention of a jury, judgment was rendered for contestants, appellees, as set out in the judgment, on the grounds that the instrument tendered as the will of the alleged testator, was not in his handwriting, was not signed by him, and was a forgery. Appellant, .in his amended motion for new trial, attacked the judgment thus rendered upon the very grounds set out therein by the court as his reasons for rendering same, and alleged in said motion that the trial court erred in so holding.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co. v. Stewart & Threadgill