Wolnitzek v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1961
5 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 Smith v. Traders National Bank · Hodges v. Roberts · 41 Tex. Civ. App. 554 - Trimble v. Borroughs · Freeman v. Cleary
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff shall have the right to open and conclude both in adducing his evidence and in the argument unless the burden of proof of the whole case under the pleadings rests upon the defendant or unless the defendant or all of the defendants, if there should be more than one, shall, after the issues of fact are settled and before the trial commences, admit that the plaintiff has a good cause of action as set forth in the petition, except so far as it may be defeated, in whole or in part, by the facts of the answer constituting a good defense, which may be established on the trial; which admission shall be entered of record, when the defendant, or the defendants, if more than one, shall have the right to open and conclude in adducing the evidence and in the argument of the cause.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frost v. Smith
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.