Williams v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Article 1821, Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Civ. Stat., was amended in 1953 to provide that nothing therein should deprive the Supreme Court of jurisdiction of any case falling within the terms of either Subdivision 1 or Subdivision 2 of Article 1728, Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Civ. Stat., and which was brought to the Court of Civil Appeals from an appeal-able judgment of the trial court. If the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals mentioned above does conflict with a prior decision of another Court of Civil Appeals, or the Supreme Court as contended by relator, the Supreme Court has writ of error jurisdiction of the case. See Brown v. Gulf Television Co., 157 Tex. 607 , 306 S.W.2d 706 ; Hammonds v. Hammonds, 155 Tex. 207 , 285 S.W.2d 362 ; State v. Wynn, 157 Tex. 200 , 301 S.W.2d 76 . Mandamus will not issue to require certification of questions in a case which can reach us by writ of error. Joseph Zukin of California v. Archer, 150 Tex. 158 , 238 S.W.2d 171 . * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Whitaker Oil Co. v. Ward