Mercer v. McCurley’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1963 · most notably Leonard v. Abbott (1963), Rasberry v. Jones (1946)
27 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 Ricker, Lee & Co. v. Shoemaker · Coalson v. Holmes · Austin v. William Cameron & Co. · Horton v. Benson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the character of the action and by way of summary, the holding of this Court is that in order to make applicable the `crime' clause of exception 9 of Article 1995, the suit alleged in plaintiff's petition must be one in which the basis of liability of the defendant to the plaintiff is some act or omission for which act or omission the defendant is liable to punishment under the Penal Code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Overby
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.