Perkins v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1985 · most notably Felmont Oil Corp. v. Pan American Petroleum Corp. (1960), Stuckey v. Union Mortgage & Investment Company (1964)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 Ford Butane Eq. Co. v. Carpenter · Texas Indemnity Ins. Co. v. Bridges · Merritt v. King · Mitchell v. Perkins
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the facts in Ford v. Carpenter, 147 Tex. 447 , 216 S.W.2d 558, 562 , are different, nevertheless the rule as stated forcibly applies here: ‘It is the duty of the trial court to reconcile apparent conflicts in the jury’s findings if this can be reasonably done in the light of the pleadings and the evidence, the manner in which the issues were submitted as a whole.’ Also, Texas Indemnity Ins. Co. v. Bridges, Tex.Civ.App., 52 S.W.2d 1075 , wr. ref.; Merritt v. King, Tex.Civ.App., 66 S.W.2d 464 , wr. ref.””
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.