Edwards v. Gifford’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably Metal Structures Corp. v. Plains Textiles, Inc. (1971), Ex Parte Jones (1962)
104 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 Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Conley · Wyss v. Bookman · Tyner v. City of Port Arthur · Longworth v. Stevens
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been repeatedly held by the courts of this State that it is not er ror for the trial judge to refuse to submit issues when they are all placed in a single instrument and are intermingled in such a way as to he confusing; and, further, that when issues are submitted in such manner, he is not required to search through the requested issues and submit those which are proper and refuse those which are improper. * * * If one or more of the special issues requested en masse should not be given, the court is justified in refusing to give any of them.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The judgment being entered by consent and agreement of the parties, the court was bound to enter a judgment falling strictly within the agreement of the parties. Wyss v. Bookman, Tex.Com.App., 235 S.W. 567 . An agreed judgment is construed in the nature of a contract, and in the construction of such a judgment the rules relating to contracts in general will apply.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Everett v. Everett
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.