Vincent v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1975
7 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 Cleveland v. Tufts · Carpenter v. Dressler · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Moffatt · Weil v. Abeel · Kelly v. National Bank of Denison
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . It is equally well settled by the decisions of our appellate courts that where the findings are ambiguous, in order to arrive at the proper interpretation of such findings of the jury the court is authorized to examine not only the charge, but the pleadings and evidence, and if by an examination of the record the intention of the verdict can be ascertained, such verdict so construed constitutes the proper basis for judgment. James v. Wilson, 7 Tex. 230 ; Rushing et al. v. Lanier et al., 51 Tex.Civ.App. 278 , 111 S.W. 1089 ; Gibson et al. v, Dickson et al. (Tex.Civ.App.) 178 S.W. 45 [writ refused); G. C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Baker et al. (Tex.Civ.App.) 218 S.W. 7, 12 (writ dismissed) ; Pickrell v. Imperial, etc., Co. (Tex.Civ.App.) 231 S.W. 412, 413 (writ dismissed); Adamson Lumber Co. v. King Lumber Co. (Tex.Civ.App.) 227 S.W. 702 (writ dismissed) ; Crenwelge v. Ponder (Tex.Com.App.) 228 S.W. 145, 146 ; G. C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Saunders (Tex.Civ.App.) 286 S.W. 919 ;””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . . There is no doubt but that it is a well-settled general rule in this state that where a case is submitted to a jury on special issues, and findings in response thereto returned, it is the duty of the court to enter judgment in accordance therewith.””
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.