Anderson v. Penix’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably Smith v. Baldwin (1980), Central Education Agency v. Independent School District (1953)
4 federal appellate · 56 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 Trimmier v. Carlton
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Letters of Administration When Recovery of Moneys From the United States Is Involved. S.B.No.123.) Chapter 132. “An Act amending Article 3325, Chapter 4, Title 54 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, adopted at the regular session of the 39th Legislature, by adding thereto a provision authorizing the county courts of this State to grant letters of administration upon the estates of certain persons without regard to the date of death when such administration is necessary in connection with the receipt or recovery of moneys due by the United States of America, and declaring an emergency. “Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: “Section 1. That Article 3325, Chapter 4, Title 54 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, adopted at the regular session of the 39th Legislature, be amended so as to hereafter read as follows : “Sec. 2. Article 3325. Time to File. All applications for the grant of letters testamentary or of administration upon an estate must be filed within four years after the death of the testator or intestate; provided that this Article shall not apply in any case where administration is necessary- in order to receive or recover funds or other property due the estate of the decedent. “Sec. 3. The fact -that many veterans of the World War to whom War Risk Insurance was granted by the United States of America died more than four years ago and their insurance was made payable in monthly installments to beneficiaries designat”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This is because of the rule that a statute will not be construed so as to ascribe to the Legislature an intention to do an unjust or an unreasonable thing, if such statute is reasonably susceptible of a construction that will not accomplish such a result.” Citing Trimmier v. Carlton, 116 Tex. 572 , 296 S.W.2d 1070 (1927).”
1 later decision 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.