Murray v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1986
13 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 Moore v. Ivey · 39 Tex. Civ. App. 252 - Kirby v. Panhandle & Gulf Railway Co. · Pecos & N. T. Ry. Co. v. Porter · 51 Tex. Civ. App. 312 - Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Rich · Eastern Texas Railway Co. v. Scurlock
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The purpose of cross-examination is to sift and to modify and have the witness explain what has been said on his direct examination, and if the witness by this process can be discredited and the weight of his testimony weakened, the right should not be denied.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.