McFall v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 1979
3 federal appellate · 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 Martin, Wise & Fitzhugh v. Texas & Pacific Railway 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule prevails that if negligence on the part of the person injured contributed to the injuries, he is not entitled. to recover, for such injuries. Martin v. T. & P. Ry. Co., 87 Tex. 117 , 26 S.W. 1052 ; Houston & T. C. Ry. Co. v. Smith, 52 Tex. 178, 183 ; Walker v. Herron, 22 Tex. 55 ; Orchin v. Ft. Worth Poultry & Egg Co., Tex.Civ.App., 43 S.W.2d 308 . The jury found that the plaintiff failed to comply with the provision of Section 9 of Article 827a of the Penal Code, and that such failure proximately contributed to and caused his injuries. The effect of this finding bars a recovery by plaintiff, .notwithstanding the other findings made 'by the jury.””
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.