Traylor v. Brentzel’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1968
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 Atex Const. Co. v. Farrow · Stovall v. Whatley · Straus-Bodenheimer Co. v. Marshall · Musslewhite v. Vos · Hamilton v. Perry
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.
““It is true that appellant’s failure to testify cannot be taken as supplying the necessary proof to establish these issues against him, but if the evidence adduced by appellee has some probative force to support a reasonable inference against him on these issues, it is a circumstance to be considered in evaluating the evidence that appellant failed to produce his testimony thereon, as it is to be presumed that if his evidence did not tend to support a finding adverse to him on such issue, he would have produced it. Traylor v. Brentzel, Tex.Civ.App.1949, 218 S.W.2d 261 , page 263. See also Atex Construction Co. v. Farrow, Tex.Civ.App. 1934, 71 S.W.2d 323 ; 17 Tex.Jur. 306, Sec. 87.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. George v. Cox
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.