Mathis v. Stockdick’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1977
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 Sherman v. Sipper · Kuhlman v. Baker · Kennedy v. Brown · 34 Tex. Civ. App. 455 - Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Ware & Walker · 34 Tex. Civ. App. 485 - Pitman v. Holmes
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendants in error made no attempt, either by pleadings or by proof, to bring their case within this rule. They relied-upon the failure to discover such defect, without attempting to show facts excusing their failure to discover such defect; and no attempt is made to show that if they had used reasonable diligence they could not have discovered their cause of action.” “ * * * Before he is entitled to recover in this case, he must bring himself within the well-defined rules above stated, long established by the decisions of this court. This was not done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Ramsey
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.