Jackson v. Hall, C.J.’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
209 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably H. E. Butt Grocery Co. v. Bruner (1975), Stull's Chemicals, Inc. v. Davis (1953)
209 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 Hayes v. Penney · Cassidy-Southwestern Commission Co. v. Chupick Bros.
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the Court of Civil Appeals determines that the judgment of the trial court is unsupported by the evidence, or that the evidence in support thereof is insufficient, its judgment should be one of remand and not one of rendition, unless it appears that the facts were fully developed at the trial appealed from.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`It is the general rule in civil cases that, when the Court of Civil Appeals reverses the judgments of the trial court for lack of evidence in support thereof, it will not render judgment unless it appears that the case in that respect has been fully developed. In such cases, when it does not appear that the facts have been fully developed, the judgment of the appellate court should be one of remand and not one of rendition.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It follows that the application is granted as prayed for and the writ of mandamus will issue unless the Court of Civil Appeals amends its judgment so as to remand the cause for a new trial in the District Court of Cherokee County.”
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.