Bowles v. Bourdon’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1999
9 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 Kaster v. Woodson · Floyd v. Michie · Kootsey v. Lewis · Guilmartin v. Padgett
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.
““Plaintiffs asked certain hypothetical questions of Dr. Bloom and Dr. Lerner. The court did not permit same to be answered. The plaintiffs did not show by the doctors, at the time the questions were asked, what the answers would be and the attorney did not state to the court and counsel what said answers would be, and what they would have been were shown only by ex parte affidavits of said doctors. This is shown by the courts qualifications of the bill of exceptions. The rule regulating bills of exception is Rule 372, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. We believe that a bill of exception cannot be amplified and expanded by putting into the record after the trial has been concluded by ex parte affidavits what a witness would have testified to had he been permitted to answer the question. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.