Wagner v. Urban’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1993
6 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 7 Tex. Civ. App. 275 - Kempner v. Jordan · City of Dallas v. Crawford · Godshalk v. Martin · O'Connor v. Towns · Turner v. Ephraim
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of a citation is to give the court proper jurisdiction and to notify the defendant or defendants that the suit is filed in order that such defendant or defendants may be heard in a court of competent jurisdiction. 33 Tex.Jur. 796, par. 4; Harris v. Gregory, Tex.Civ.App., 23 S.W.2d 748 ; Smithers v. Smith, 98 Tex. 83 , 81 S.W. 283 , and Mosaic Templars of America v. Gaines, Tex.Civ.App., 265 S.W. 721 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellison v. Patton
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.