Corder v. Corder’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1994
16 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 137 Am. St. Rep. 89 - Adams v. St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas · C.C. Kidd v. J.H. McCracken · Weil v. Abeel · Texas Electric Ry. v. Cox · Odum v. Peeler
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At any time before the jury has retired, the plaintiff may take a non-suit, but he shall not thereby prejudice the right of an adverse party to be heard on his claim for affirmative relief. When the case is tried by the judge, such non-suit may be taken at any time before the decision is announced.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lanier v. Lanier““In our opinion, the words used in the rule ‘before the decision is announced’ mean before judgment is rendered.””
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.