Blackmon v. Trail’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1976
19 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 Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Kimball · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hudson · Ford & Damon v. Flewellen · Heard v. Nichols · Knodel v. Equitable Life Ins. Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial in a Court of Civil Appeals shall be: * * * "7. Or upon an error in law either assigned or apparent upon the face of the record. "If none of the foregoing exists, the case shall be dismissed with costs alone or with costs and damages, in the discretion of the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If it be conceded, as it must be, that the Court of Civil Appeals is not required to consider such an alleged error, it necessarily follows that that court has no power to consider such an error, even though it should elect to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Hodges
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.