Fain v. Nelms’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1936
23 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 Dorn v. Dunham · French v. Grenet · 16 Tex. Civ. App. 420 - Van Zandt v. Brantley · House v. Stone · Robson v. Osborn
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In passing upon the question, however, as ground for reversal, its effect on the jury must be considered, and upon this point it must be assumed that, during the course of this trial, amid the strenuous conflict between counsel as to the time appellee’s adverse possession began, and the amount of evidence on that issue, it must have been a remarkably stupid juror who would not have gathered what would be the legal result of a finding on this issue. We are inclined to the opinion that counsel only told the jury what they already knew, and we cannot believe that they disregarded the evidence and charge of the court, and were influenced by this argument. These improper remarks, we think, ought not to bring upon appellee the penalty of a reversal.””
3 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.