Miers v. Brouse’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably State v. Morales (1994), Lunsford v. City of Bryan (1957)
35 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 Edwards v. Morton · Brouse v. Miers
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first maxim of equity is that it will not suffer a right to be without a remedy. As Lord Holt early said: 'If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it.... It is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy.’ ”) (citations omitted); Southwest Weather Research v. Duncan, 319 S.W.2d 940, 944 (Tex.Civ.App.—El Paso 1958) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morales
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.