Jinks v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1982
15 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 Hines v. Parks · Hines v. Parks · Edmiston v. Texas & N. O. R. · Edmiston v. Texas & New Orleans Railroad · Armstrong v. Hix
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Provided, that upon motion and reasonable notice the court may render judgment non obstante veredicto if a directed verdict would have been proper, and provided further that the court may, upon like motion and notice, disregard any Special Issue Jury Finding that has no support in the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradford v. Arhelger““A motion to disregard one or more special issues, but not the whole verdict, must be directed to the objectionable special issues and point out the reason or reasons why they should be disregarded. This is clearly the meaning of Rule 301, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradford v. Arhelger
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.