Lauraine v. Masterson’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1993
21 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 George v. Ryon, Administratrix · Cannon v. McDaniel · 29 Tex. Civ. App. 533 - National Guarantee Loan & Trust Co. v. Fly · Stewart v. Webb
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The nature of the case, as disclosed by the foregoing statement, was such that the powers of a probate court were inadequate to grant the defendant, in error the full relief to which he was entitled, and it is well settled that in such cases the district court can properly be called upon to exercise its equity powers and grant adequate relief. Cannon v. McDaniel, 46 Tex. 303 ; George v. Ryon, 94 Tex. 317 , 60 S. W. 427 ; National Guaranty Loan & Trust Company v. Fly, 29 Tex. Civ. App. 533 , 69 S. W. 231 ; Stewart v. Webb, 156-S. W. 537.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fryckberg v. Scott
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.