Friend v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1968
9 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 Harrell v. Mexico Cattle Co. · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Rawlins · 34 Tex. Civ. App. 387 - Blank v. Robertson · 4 Tex. Civ. App. 428 - Llano Improvement Co. v. Watkins · Thomason v. Bishop
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutory proceedings noted, and to which the law exacts a close adherence, are all steps necessary to be successively taken in order to show the court’s jurisdiction over the defendant, and in cases of judgment by default such jurisdiction must affirmatively appear” — citing numerous cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shambeck v. Johnson
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.