Compton v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
732 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 734 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably Banks v. Collins (1953), Ladner v. Reliance Corp. (1956)
732 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 734 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The venue facts which a plaintiff, desiring to sue a defendant outside the county of defendant’s domicile, must allege and prove, if the defendant asserts his privilege, are those which are stated in the particular exception of article 1995 that is applicable or appropriate to the character of suit alleged in plaintiff’s petition.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"On the hearing of the plea of privilege, the issue made is tried in the ordinary way and the truth as to the fact or facts in issue is ascertained by the introduction and weighing of evidence offered by both parties." (at p. 95.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) It is well settled that 'with the venue challenged, under proper plea, by one sued without his county, * * the burden not only to allege but to prove that the case is within one of the exceptions to the statute rests on the plaintiff.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.