McNeill v. Hubert’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

97 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * when it appears that one seeks * * * judgment upon some matter, which, when rendered, for any reason can not have any practical legal effect upon a then existing controversy.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Turner v. Chandler · State Ex Rel. Schwartz v. Jones

2. “As long as appellee was in the attitude of prosecuting a suit against appellant in Tarrant county the question as to whether appellant was entitled to have such case tried in the county of his residence was one which he was privileged to have determined by the court, but, when such suit was abandoned, the question as to the proper forum for such a suit becomes purely an abstract one which an appellate court should decline to determine.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morris Plan Bank of Fort Worth v. Ogden

3. ““Courts do not sit for the purpose of expounding the law upon abstract questions, but to determine the rights of litigants by the rendition of effective judgments.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alice National Bank v. Trevino