Baker v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It has long been the law in this state that when a court of competent jurisdiction has rendered a final judgment in a civil cause, such as is here involved, it must be presumed upon appeal that such judgment is correct unless the contrary is affirmatively made to appear from the record. Pierce v. Pierce, 21 Tex. 469 ; Tweedy v. Briggs & Yard, 31 Tex. 74 ; Luse v. Penn, Tex.Civ.App., 220 S.W. 303 (er. dis.); International & G. N. R. Co. v. Smith, Tex.Sup., 14 S.W. 642 ; Mills v. Mills, Tex.Com.App., 265 S.W. 142 ; Uvalde Const. Co. v. Joiner, 132 Tex. 593 , 126 S.W.2d 22 , pt. 3; Bennett v. Jackson, Tex.Civ.App., 172 S.W.2d 395 , pt. 2 (er. ref.).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nichols v. Massey