King v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1956
9 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 43 Tex. Civ. App. 421 - International Harvester Co. of America v. Campbell · Robb v. San Antonio Street Railway Co. · Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. Roberts · Thomas v. Hammond · 39 Tex. Civ. App. 500 - Bringhurst v. Texas 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothing is better settled as a rule of pleading than that, in declaring upon a contract required by the statute of frauds to he in writing, it is not essential to the validity of the pleading that it should aver that such contract was in writing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Betts v. Betts
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.