Ulmer v. Ulmer’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Nautical Landings Marina, Inc. v. First National Bank in Port Lavaca (1990), Morgan v. Box (1969)
47 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 Ward v. Scarborough · Snyder v. Nunn · Houston Ice & Brewing Co. v. Harlan · Robertson v. Lee · Trigg v. Shelton
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] threat to sue on a past due note and to foreclose the lien securing same is neither fraud nor duress.... It is never duress to threaten to do that which a party has a legal right to do.”
2 later decisions 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.