Harvey v. Elder’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Johnson v. Whitehurst (1983), Deutsch v. Hoover, Bax & Slovacek, L.L.P. (2003)
33 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 Parker v. Schrimsher · Atlantic Greyhound Corp. v. McDonald · 61 Tex. Civ. App. 517 - Murray Co. v. Putman · Wright v. Carey · Rudco Oil & Gas Co. v. Gulf Oil Corp.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When questions of law only are involved, a trial court may at the conclusion of the hearing of the evidence take the case from the jury and proceed to render judgment. This may be done on the court’s own motion and this power is in no way dependent upon a motion having been filed by a party litigant. Rudco Oil and Gas Co. v. Gulf Oil Corporation, Tex.Civ.App., 169 S.W.2d 791 . We see no difference between the situation where the court on its own motion renders a judgment and one where the court upon an irregular or insufficient motion by one of the parties directs a verdict and renders judgment accordingly. In either instance, in determining the matter of reversible error, the question is the same, i. e., Was the prevailing party below entitled to judgment as a matter of law?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. Currie
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.