Harris v. Leslie’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 1990 · most notably International-Great Northern R. v. Acker (1939), Amarillo Oil Co. v. Energy-Agri Products, Inc. (1990)
32 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
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“The case before the Court of Civil Appeals out of which the question arose is Harris v. Thornton's Department Store, 94 S.W.2d 849 . The opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals freely admits the conflict of decisions on the question, but follows the opinion of this court in Gulf, C. S. F. Ry. Co. v. Conley, 113 Tex. 472 , 260 S.W. 561 , 32 A.L.R. 1183 . This court, as recently stated in Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Gallagher, [ 127 Tex. 553 :], 94 S.W.2d 410 , will not require the certification of a question which it has already decided, unless the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals on that question is contrary to the Supreme Court's decision thereon. The decision of the Court of Civil Appeals being in harmony with the decision of this court in the Conley Case, supra, the motion for leave to file will be denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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