Howell v. Knox’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1994
12 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 Richardson v. Kelly, Recr. · Robertson v. Du Bose · Consolidated Underwriters v. Kelly · Kelly v. Consolidated Underwriters · Glenn H. McCarthy, Inc. v. Southern Underwriters
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The following from Kelly v. Consolidated Underwriters, Tex.Civ.App., 300 S.W. 981, 984 , affirmed on other grounds, Tex.Com.App., 15 S.W.2d 229 , is ascribed therein to Robertson v. Du-Bose, 76 Tex. 1 , 13 S.W. 300 : ‘Similarity of name is held to be sufficient to establish the identity of the person, when there is no evidence to the contrary, and no suspicion cast upon the transaction by the evidence.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richards v. State
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.