McFaddin v. Hebert’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably Grieger v. Vega (1954), West Texas Utilities Co. v. Renner (1932)
3 federal appellate · 102 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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Clearly, the prime object, purpose, and intent of the law for submitting cases on special issues is to remove the jury from any bias in favor of, or prejudice against, either party to the suit, to relieve them from the duty of directly passing on who shall prevail in the suit, and to make it the duty of the jury to answer each question truly as they find the facts to be from the evidence, without regard to what the result of their answers may be. If the court or the attorney, or any one else, is allowed to tell the jury the legal result of the answers, and to appeal to them in argument to so frame their answers so as to accomplish a result rather than to answer the issues truly as they find the facts to be from the evidence, * * * the law providing for special issue verdicts would be an idle and vain thing." (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen the issues are such that ordinary men are not presumed to know the legal effect of the answers, then the argument of counsel telling them the legal effect of such answers, coupled with the other circumstances, would, as a matter of law, probably result in injury to the opposite side, and is reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Did James Ingalls, in making the survey of the E. L. Moore and other connecting surveys go to the northwest corner of the John McGaffey League, as called for in his field notes of the Moore Survey, or did he not? “Answer ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McFaddin v. Hebert
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.