Dunne v. Sayers, Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1950
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 26 Tex. Civ. App. 34 - Messer v. Cross
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article 3051 of Vernon's Sayles' Statutes, which provides that a written notice of the contest of the election and a written statement of the grounds upon which the contestant relies shall be served upon the contestee within 30 days after the return day of the election, does not prescribe the form of the written statement; the only requirement being that said statement must show the grounds upon which the contest is based.”
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.