Miller v. Dyess’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1983
16 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. Village Mills Co. · City of Palestine v. City of Houston · Perkins v. Terrell · Johnson v. Bingham · 39 Tex. Civ. App. 189 - American Cotton Co. v. Simmons
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the othfe.r hand, provided the requirements discussed in-§ 295 infra are present [such elements %re present here], where a definite statement of a matter of fact, affecting a party or his rights, is made, the statement, although inadmissible as evidence of the facts stated, is, in connection with a total or partial failure to reply, admissible as tending to show a concession of the truth of the facts stated, according to the decisions on the question to the same extent as an express admission. •'* * * ” 31 C.J.S., Evidence, § 294, p. 1058.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Muse v. McWilliams
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.